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linicx
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| Re: Scary reality ... It is very scary if you own a machine with a Microsoft Operating System running it.
Until someone gets a handle on this bot, the smart thing for every ISP to do is shut down the mail servers so it can't spread; locate the infected machines and notify the owners.
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Corvus
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join:2003-11-26 | Re: Scary reality ... Humm, my example: you have 500 000 customers and they pay for the service, how can you shutdown mail servers without loosing money (you must refund them) and customers?
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United State | Re: Scary reality ... Yeah, you're right . 500,000 customers probably do prefer worms served with spam and morning coffee.
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| Re: Scary reality ... Unfortunately, yes. I deal with angry people who wants to quit us everyday, and when they loose business because the service was down trust me, they don't care about spam because money talks.
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| said by linicx  :
It is very scary if you own a machine with a Microsoft Operating System running it.
Yep, because *nix systems aren't ever compramised. (rolls eyes)
said by linicx :
Until someone gets a handle on this bot...
It's not just *one* bot. I've seen a large variety of IRC bots and FXP sites - and they all contribute to the same problem.
These kinds of activities though are going to be what blows the lid off of the computer underground. You have a lot of kids out there installing root kits, bots, and FTP servers en mass, and it is starting to draw attention. This has always been a problem for people like myself who deal with it everyday, but now the public at large is starting to get involved, and that will change the game.
Although, this is the first time that I've seen it all refered to as "organized crime". When I first read it, I got a chuckle out of it. But if you think about it: pre relase movies, music, and applications are very commonplace in the underground, and that can be used as a platform to call such activities "organized crime". Not that the older stuff isn't crime, it just doesn't have the same life as the major pre-release stuff.
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| Re: Scary reality ... said by INHCNN :
said by linicx :
It is very scary if you own a machine with a Microsoft Operating System running it.
Yep, because *nix systems aren't ever compramised. (rolls eyes)
I hope that was a joke, or that would show your ignorance. | |
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Collegeville, PA | Re: Scary reality ... Unix systems tend to be compromised, when compromised, by attacks directly addressed to the system which is compromised.
Microsoft systems are compromised by attacks addressed "to whom it may concern". | |
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rklein
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| LrdVader
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| said by linicx :
Until someone gets a handle on this bot, the smart thing for every ISP to do is shut down the mail servers so it can't spread; locate the infected machines and notify the owners.
So every time there's a new virus found, email should grind to a screeching halt?
Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? Think about it. If ISPs listened to you, email would be down more than it would be up, and would be completely useless for anything even remotely important.
Is that really what you want? | |
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linicx
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United State | Re: Scary reality ... If ISPs listened to me they wouldn't have few virus problems to begin with. and their clients would have safe email.
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| | | LrdVader
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| Re: Scary reality ... said by linicx :
If ISPs listened to me they wouldn't have few virus problems to begin with. and their clients would have safe email.
No, if ISPs listened to you they would go out of business, because their clients would refuse to tolerate the constant interruptions in service.
Here's a nice link about this type of practice going back to 1999. It was silly then, and it's still silly now.
»vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=241&page=4 | |
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