RE: Scans Observed by Officer Friendly

["James D. Wilson" <netsurf () sersol com>]

You might want to consider using Nukenabber as well - it gives you a
lot of flexibility both in what is monitored and how you respond to
it...

-
James D. Wilson
"non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net
[mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () nfr net]On Behalf Of Larry Chin
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 1:27 AM
To: S. Jonah Pressman
Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject: Re: Scans Observed by Officer Friendly


> Frankly, Chuck, some of us actually do go out and "smack someone
upside
> the head".  More importantly, the script kiddies that tend to repeat
> attempts are soon humbled into submission when their ISP cancels
their
> service.

  Apologies for contributing to a thread that's a bit "off topic" for
this
  list but....

  I'd like to second the sentiments above.
  We actually have a zero tolerance policy for
  abuse and regularly cancel accounts in the cases where we can
  positively identify an offender. Unfortunately we can't ( at the
  moment ) track spoofed types of attacks, but we're working on it.

  As to the lack of response or the generation of a "canned response"
  please understand, that there are literally hundreds of complaints a
  month that we deal with, and while each and every one is attended to
by
  a  dedicated "abuse guy", we cannot reply to each and every
complaint
  ( otherwise we'd never get to the complaint :-) )

  The proof as they say is in the pudding, ie: the spam or the abuse
  stops, and the user is banned from the service and ends up
"attacking"
  from another ISP.

  Just my .02 cents worth :-)

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Larry Chin {larry () sprint ca}      Technical Specialist - ISC
Sprint Canada                     2550 Victoria Park Avenue
Phone: 416.496.1644 ext. 4693     Suite 200, North York, Ontario
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