Steve
I'm a PC, so shut up
Consultant
join:2001-03-10
Yorba Linda, CA
| reply to sonofjay
Re: Killing a fly with a jackhammer
said by sonofjay  :
And how long will it really be before a virus is written to use a different port?
They won't: as long as 25/tcp is the only port that recipient mailservers listen on, blocking that outbound port stops the spam once and for all.
I don't care of Comcast customers are infected, I just care that the spam stops.
Steve
--
Stephen J. Friedl * Security Consultant * Tustin, California USA * my web site |
|
alien9999999
Your Head Looks Nice
Premium
join:2002-05-21
B-3000
| it's more "killing billions of flys with a bunch of jackhammers"
furthermore, even if every ISP blocks the port, it won't mean spam would be ended, but it would mean that every spam would be perfectly traceable and sueable (hopefully) and that spammers would have no place to run anymore...
...effectively ending 90% of all spam.
--
Alien is my name and headbiting is my game. |
|
