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Re: More universities take action to block unpatched/infected computers

  • From: Matthew Sullivan
  • Date: Fri Sep 05 01:52:12 2003 
Sean Donelan wrote:
Universities have one big advantage; they are a campus and can distribute
CDROMs with the fix or have students come to the computer center.

The doesn't mean ISPs shouldn't do anything though.

/ Mat

Perhaps if ISPs disconnected infected hosts quickly then there would be a greater reason for home and corporate users to get patched up promptly.