20 Feb
2003
20 Feb
'03
4:11 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:
Worse, it only takes 1 infected host to re-infect the entire net in about 10 minutes. So, the entire 'net has to cooperate, or we'll see continual re-infection.
Only if people didn't fix their servers. And if they didn't, this "reverse" denial of service attack is a good reminder.
Unfortunately, this is a cost that prevents pain to others, rather than self-inflicted pain. Another pollution of the commons issue.
Seems to me that filtering is no longer necessary unless you have reason to believe your customers are going to install new vulnerable boxes or vulnerable software on existing boxes AND their pipe to you is so big the excess traffic is going to hurt you more than them.