RE: IBM report reviews Internet crime

2008-02-14 Thread Frank Bulk
he virus/Trojan was so new, they started spewing spam again. In this case, their AV software gave them a false sense of assurance. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh Sent: 2008-02-13 17:35 To: nanog list Subject: Re: IBM

Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
JC Dill wrote: I'm really surprised that ISPs haven't banded together to sue Microsoft for negligently selling and distributing an insecure OS that is an Attractive Nuisance - causing the ISPs (who don't own the OS infected computers) harm from the network traffic the infected OSs send, and

Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime

2008-02-13 Thread John Dupuy
This should definitely be taken in context: this is a security report from the point of view IBM selling security systems to enterprise customers. It isn't necessarily the "state of the Internet" as a whole. To a large enterprise, getting a web page from "playboy.com" is a security problem ev

RE: IBM report reviews Internet crime

2008-02-12 Thread Scott Weeks
These statements (and others in it) are very telling about the type of report this is: "...percent of Internet content was classified as unwanted..." "...hosting source of adult, socially deviant and criminal content on the Internet" take with a grain of salt... scott