bugtraq - Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

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Message-ID: <43FB0216.4090403@hogyros.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:05:42 +0100
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@...yros.de>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

Hi,

Gadi Evron wrote:

> As many of us know, handling such users on tech support is not very 
> cost-effective to ISP's, as if a user makes a call the ISP already 
> losses money on that user. Than again, paying abuse desk personnel just 
> so that they can disconnect your users is losing money too.

> Which one would you prefer?

Choice. The difference between a bug and a feature is that you can turn 
the feature off. If an ISP offers filters as a feature, I say more power 
to them.

    Simon

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