On (2005-08-15 18:51 +0000), surfer@mauigateway.com wrote:
NetBIOS was never meant to be a WAN protocol, so no problem in blocking it.
I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet and how not to. There are real solutions to the problem, which include monitoring the end-user traffic and do traffic steering for infected hosts to a web page thats helps solving their problem.
For example: grc.com/su-techzone1.htm
scott
----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: zotob - blocking tcp/445 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:51:43 +0200
I heard from several different big ISP's that to stop the spread of the worm they now block tcp/445. I suppose it works.
Gadi.
-- ++ytti