Re: How many dialup users know that their computer is a sitting duck without a firewall?
From: Robert Moir (bofh_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/02/04
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 18:47:15 +0100
BeamGuy wrote:
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> 1) Mobilize all the police, firemen, and IT professionals in the
> country to make house calls on all the grandmothers & grandfathers
> and ordinary moms & dads of america to install a copy of software
> firewall and turn it on.
When you say "The country" and "of America", you need to think more along
the lines of "whole world".
Even if you only care about your little bit of it, the fact is in today's
modern world a brand new worm on a computer in Thailand can cause you much
more trouble than the idiot up the street who still hasn't cleaned a 2 year
old copy of the melissa worm off their machine.
> 2) Shutdown all internet access to corporate america tommorrow until
> further notice, or suffer billions of dollars worth of lost
> productivity.
Shutdown access from whom to whom?
(And see my earlier comments about the world. Its a very large place and you
only live in a part of it.)
> 3) Provide protection further upstream... so that on Monday morning
> there are not 10 million virus laden computers all baraging corporate
> america - as well as 1 million laptops brought back from home with
> virus infections.
I've been convinced for a long time that there should be more done by ISPs.
They can do more to protect their clients by filtering incoming traffic for
the most obvious junk, and they can protect others by isolating obviously
infected computers on their own network and helping the users to patch their
machines.
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