Re: Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help)

On 6/18/07, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:

Of course, though 25 is (afaik ;) the most abused one that will annoy a lot of other folks with spam, phishings and virus distribution, though the latter seems to have come to a near halt from what I see.

Read these and weep, then - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/port25.pdf http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/zombies.pdf As Joe says (and I agree), trying to fix infected hosts on your network by blocking port 25 is like treating lung cancer with cough syrup. srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)