North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting
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. --vadim
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