On Apr 4, 2005 2:29 PM, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, researchers haven't come up with a better way to fix > compromised machines without destroying the innocent victims' work.
Sad. Then what the man does is to hire someone to take a backup of everything and go over the backup for virus infections. Or maybe he could wait for when the infections in his PC finally ruin it beyond use for him .. > So how do you encourage people to fix their computers, without the press > writing lots of stories about "evil" ISPs cut off service to grandmother's > on social security looking at pictures of their grandchildren. > > There are at least 20 million and probably more compromised computers on > the Internet. Who has a plan to fix them? Cut them off at any rate. Symantec's turntide "antispam router" (really an IDS + stateful firewall for spam) seems a godawful idea for inbound mail right now, given the current behavior of proxy trojans, but I can see where it'd be quite useful on an outbound mail stream from an ISP's IP space Find them, isolate them into what some providers call a "walled garden" - vlan them into their own segment from where all they can access are antivirus / service pack downloads and an 1-800 number to call tech support at their ISP -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])