full-disclosure - ISP's save the Inet from Blaster?

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From: kdurron at hotmail.com (Kyp Durron)
Subject: ISP's save the Inet from Blaster?

Hello all,

Here is something to contemplate.  Right now portions or possibly all of 
Cox, Charter, Comcast and SBC DSL networks are not allowing in or outbound 
port 135, 139 and 445 traffic.  Take into consideration the vast number of 
uneducated users running XP or 2000 with no protection on those networks.  
So, is it possible that these ISP's are finally clueing into the dangers 
that their networks pose to the Internet at large and are partial to thank 
for Blaster not being a Slammer times 1000?

On a funny side note a few of these ISP's are denying the fact that they are 
blocking those ports, but there is NO way you can scan over 200 client 
machines and see tons of 5000 (uPnP) ports open and not one 135, 139 or 445.

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