On 02/03/05, "Miller, Mark" <mark.miller@qwest.com> wrote:
How come it is always about controlling the symptoms and not the illness? The vast majority of these "spam drones" are compromised WINDOWS machines. If the operating system and dominant email applications so easily allows the users' machines to be taken over by a third party, then there is something wrong with the operating system and the mail applications. It occurs to me that the solution is not to limit the range of destruction, but to defuse the bomb. Perhaps the focus for a solution should move up the model to layer 7.
Upgrading and/or replacing the OS for every Windows user on the planet is an educational issue. Keeping the network viable while you figure out how to do that is an operational issue. -- J.D. Falk uncertainty is only a virtue <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> when you don't know the answer yet