Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Bill Wheatley wrote: > AHh don't get me started on blacklists Why not? I would be interested in knowing what you think about for instance the blacklist that is being run by HoF: http://www.houseoffusion.com/spam/bannedips.cfm Jochem [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsu

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Kevin Graeme wrote: > It's pretty much unmonitored here on the big cable broadband providers, > IIRC. Then it is quite likely that the customers of these providers will not be able to email me without using the SMTP relays of their ISPs. Jochem [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription]

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-04 Thread Bill Wheatley
nning that is open. William Wheatley Coldfusion Guru     Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.   - Original Message -   From: Kevin Graeme   To: CF-Community   Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:13 PM   Subject: Re: evolution of vi

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-04 Thread Kevin Graeme
It's pretty much unmonitored here on the big cable broadband providers, IIRC. -Kevin On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:37:51 -0400, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harkins, Patrick wrote: > > Do major ISPs monitor for spam-like email volume or other suspicious > > traffic from residential cus

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Harkins, Patrick wrote: > Do major ISPs monitor for spam-like email volume or other suspicious > traffic from residential customers? And do they do anything about it? I don't know how it works on your side of the pond, but here some of the major ISPs do that. Others find themselves massively black

RE: evolution of viruses

2004-08-04 Thread Harkins, Patrick
Do major ISPs monitor for spam-like email volume or other suspicious traffic from residential customers? And do they do anything about it? -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten They are already responsible. That is why some RBLs list ISPs instead of hosts and others tie not just the

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-03 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Patrick Harkins wrote: > But the ISP would have to actually care about incidents... If your ISP doesn't care about incidents, you have the wrong ISP. > As I > understand the suggestion, it is to make ISPs responsible for outgoing > "bad traffic", in order to stem the flow and keep networks aliv

RE: evolution of viruses

2004-08-03 Thread Harkins, Patrick
The problem that they are talking about is not so much single machine infection but the clogging of Internet traffic by spam/virus bot networks and multiplying error messages related to forged headers and multiple bounce backs, etc -Original Message- From: Robert Munn > There is an in

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Harkins
But the ISP would have to actually care about incidents... As I understand the suggestion, it is to make ISPs responsible for outgoing "bad traffic", in order to stem the flow and keep networks alive...acknowledging that education of the end-user is a slow and painful process. > > > I don't see t

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-03 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Patrick Harkins wrote: > There is an interesting article and discussion on this topic at this > address: > http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/4520-7297-5148132.html > I was wondering what you guys thought of the comment one of the guys > made about the need to force ISPs block outgoing spam/virus traff

Re: evolution of viruses

2004-08-03 Thread Robert Munn
> There is an interesting article and discussion on this topic at this > address: > http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/4520-7297-5148132.html > I was wondering what you guys thought of the comment one of the guys > made about the need to force ISPs block outgoing spam/virus traffic... Personally I wou