Re: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

2004-09-23 Thread Mike Nice
Our system is similar, except we block port 25 completely via RADIUS after we detect an outgoing virus or spam, Detect how? We don't sniff traffic for suspicious signatures at this point.Viruses are eventually caught by the assumption that send to everyone in the address book

Re: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

2004-09-22 Thread Mike Nice
Blocking just hides it. I used to believe in port blocking as the solution to many user problems but now I have 3 and 4 page ACL's on my border routers. This does not scale. Yes, I could push this out via radius to the NAS but again this does not solve the problem. The solution I am

Re: OT - 3 Free Gmail invites

2004-08-19 Thread Mike Nice
If we are all network operators, exactly what is the benefit of having a 1GB mailbox operated by another network? Offsite backup. Just encrypt and point your backup device to your E-mail box :-)

Re: Surge Protection

2004-07-22 Thread Mike Nice
- Original Message - We have since purchased some polyphaser surge protectors. I'll second the polyphaser as a good product. We put it in a POP in the base of a 460 foot tower and the equipment and it survived unscathed for at least 5 direct tower lightning hits that we know of

Re: What HTTP exploit?

2004-05-31 Thread Mike Nice
It seems to be another stupid Microsoft Exploit that just causes annoyance for Unix Boxes. The only side effect is they fill my dmesg logs with signal 11's from apache crashing. Am I the only one that sees the irony that Apache seg faults from an attack aimed at Msoft?!

Possibly even yet another MS mail worm

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Nice
I just received 2 copies of Bagle.F, embedded inside a password-protected zip file. Comes right through a full virus scan undetected. --- Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:04 PM Subject: Bad girl I am from Taiwan but I study in Camden, New Jersey now. I

Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

2003-10-04 Thread Mike Nice
We created a set of RAS filters that we can call up in the user's RADIUS record - Block ICMP request, Block SMTP outgoing, etc. When the user has a virus we just set the filter. They can still get on without doing any damage, yet still download fixes, etc. They might call if they need to

Re: Banc of America Article

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Nice
While they may have VPN's at many of their branches which offer significant savings over leased lines everywhere, their web site access to personal banking information was also offline. It would be worth grepping logs to see if there was indeed a SQL server from the inside that was infected.

Re: Banc of America Article

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Nice
Just like the insider TCI theft ring at http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-971196.html , the easy way out is to just to skip all that and get access to a leased line from the inside - I'll bet many financial transactions over a private line aren't even encrypted. - Original Message - Yes,

Sorta OT: IP Multicasting

2002-04-22 Thread Mike Nice
I've scanned the web for the latest information on working with IP Multicasting. There's a bunch of old (obsolete?) information dealing with MBONE, and pointers to http://www.ipmulticast.com which doesn't respond. 1.) Are there any pointers to URLs that deal with issues to set up for both