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Re: management interface accessability (was Re: Worm / UDP1434)

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Sun Jan 26 15:21:29 2003 
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Rob Thomas wrote:

>
> Hi, NANOGers.
>
> ] - the worm is memory resident. Road warriors that are infected at home
> ] or while traveling are unlikely to introduce this worm into the company
> ] LAN as they come to work on Monday.
>
> Just a point here:  Many road warriors are work-at-home folks who have
> their computers on 24x7.  They may be infected, and will fire up their
> VPN tunnels Monday morning.  This may introduce the worm into the chewy
> center of many corporate networks.  Hopefully folks have put the proper
> filters in place on their VPN access points.

Wait, but isn't your corporate network 'secure' cause its got a super kewl
firewall infront of it??