Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:10:21 -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
Yup this is a social problem. Just like there's nothing actually stopping any of us from beating up a guy on the street, we don't do it because it isn't legal, doesn't make sense, etc. Some muggers do, the people in control of the SPAM problem are the muggers....the people with infected systems are just the ones who've been mugged.
The ones who've been mugged don't start mugging other people, infected PCs will infect other PCs. That's the difference, and that's why an ISP should do something about that. Although it may be out of fashion, I'd like to see good netizenship. Gr, Arjan H
Arjan Hulsebos wrote:
The ones who've been mugged don't start mugging other people, infected PCs will infect other PCs. That's the difference, and that's why an ISP should do something about that. Although it may be out of fashion, I'd like to see good netizenship.
SPAM as other types of abuse is easiest to control closest to the source, which in most cases means the consumer ISP providing the local access for the user. Pete
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