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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actuallygetsusers to fix their computers?)
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Jamie Reid wrote: > While we were fighting blaster/nachi and others, we relied heavily on > IDS's to generate alerts for the worms, then we disabled their network > access and called them. Generic viruses are not an ISP's problem, but > a worm is something that affects the prviders infrastructure, and is > therefore a network operators business. Did the users actually believe you when you told them their computer had a worm? How many times did you disable the same user's network access because they didn't actually fix their computer but told you it was fixed? But I have a really important document that has to be sent right now, and I can't wait to fix the computer.
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