Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:09:22PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:

It should be pointed put that the ISPs have their share of blame for the quick-spreading worms, beause they neglected very simple precautions -- such as giving cutomers pre-configured routers or DSL/cable modems with firewalls disabled by default (instead of the standard "end-user, let only outgoing connections thru" configuration), and providing insufficient information to end-users on configuring these firewalls.

Yes, fingerpointing fixes everything. I remember a quote my music teacher used to tell the class, "for every one finger you point at someone else, four fingers are pointing back at you".