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Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:04:12 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote:So how do you connect to the real IRC server, then? Remember that most end users are not nslookup-wielding shell commandos who can figure out whois and look up the IP.If those users are so technically unsophisticated, do you really expect
the other users with infected computers to figure out how to disinfect their computer and remove the Bots instead?
I would imagine that if we're talking about "unsophisticated" users, the majority of them have no idea what IRC is anyway -- most of them are using AIM, or Yahoo! IM, or.... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGpO2Uq1pz9mNUZTMRArtXAKD/gF0YM9MYcLA6AZ2InaNBrlgaHACgngiP kzDzfUd+9BsdcbxDz1Z9xig= =OoHG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Current thread:
- Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking Paul Ferguson (Jul 23)
- Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET (Jul 23)
- Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking Chris L. Morrow (Jul 23)
- Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking Sean Donelan (Jul 23)
- Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 23)
- Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking Chris L. Morrow (Jul 23)
- Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET (Jul 23)