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Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Fri Aug 22 17:52:46 2003 
Omachonu Ogali wrote:
If you're responsible for any of the IPs on the list, better
permanently remove them from your DHCP pools, IP assignments,
dial-up pools, or anything else that assigns IP addresses,
because these will be filtered and forgotten for the next
200 years.

If the virus guys get smarter they�ll put in /24�s or /16�s next time. Just scan through
the block with magic cookie until you get the reply you�re looking for and start
downloading the update.

Anyone willing to block the whole /16 of their dialup or dsl users if it shows up on
an AV vendor�s list?

Pete