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Millions still infected
Brought my new work laptop home a month or so ago to set it up with XP and to play with it a bit. I plugged it into my hub and minutes after bringing it up, Blaster infected the machine and caused a reboot in the middle of a service pack install - of course it blue screened and I had to reinstall.

I'm sure hundreds of thousands - perhaps even millions - of machines are still infected. I think ISP's should block these people that are infected and force them to clean their machines. It's very easy to detect a machine infected with Blaster with a packet sniffer. We blocked infected machines (mostly laptops) that were brought into our network from outside by setting up a sniffer and blocking MAC addresses in the router. This got their attention quickly.

A successfull class action lawsuit against MS might help things too.
Posted by: toadlife   Posted on: 04/02/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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All the more reason  MkIIISupra | 04/02/04
All the more reason  seosamh_z | 04/03/04
Buy something ELSE!  OhMyGosh | 04/03/04
Buy something ELSE!  seosamh_z | 04/03/04
re:  ryusen | 04/05/04
Millions still infected  toadlife | 04/02/04
ISP's dont care.  DragonBRockin | 04/02/04
And no one else cares either  toadlife | 04/02/04
Some of them are  Chad_z | 04/03/04
This is why a monoculture is bad  Rick_K | 04/03/04
BillyG IS A TERRORIST!  carbon-12 | 04/02/04
numbers  toadlife | 04/02/04
re : numbers  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Your estimate is off!  B.O.F.H. | 04/02/04
A network monitor will tell you  Chad_z | 04/02/04
Costs are dependant on more than the software  toadlife | 04/02/04
re  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Dude, put down the crack pipe  Chad_z | 04/04/04
Still very widespread  Nigel Johnstone | 04/03/04
That is why they want the FEDS to regulate cybercrime  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/03/04
no, it is to make sure companies and people  V Sanders | 04/04/04
free software can't afford the checking and double checking  wackoae | 04/04/04
Intertesting little gem........  nite_w0lf | 04/03/04
Black Helicopter Response...  Confused by religion | 04/03/04
Does this mean...  Spoon Jabber | 04/05/04
re: didn't the article say...  ryusen | 04/05/04
how do they get these numbers?  V Sanders | 04/03/04
probably  CobraA1 | 04/03/04
It's all the work of a bad design  middsco | 04/03/04
from what I hear . . .  CobraA1 | 04/03/04
This data courtesy of MS spyware ???  Plain Logic | 04/04/04
oh - bull  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Good one!  Spoon Jabber | 04/05/04
A lot of ISP's are blocking Port 135  jfrankcarr | 04/04/04
linux hacked more then originaly thought  V Sanders | 04/04/04
So, MS spyware 'ratted' them out about their earlier spin on Slammer ???  Plain Logic | 04/04/04
Now cut that out  myndlon@... | 04/05/04
OOPS, previous post should say 'Blaster', not 'Slammer'... Too many ...  Plain Logic | 04/04/04
Is is just my bias or is it true that  mlindl | 04/05/04
I can think of about 4 or 5...  Spoon Jabber | 04/05/04
MsBlaster has larger subscriber base then Linux  ShadeTree | 04/05/04

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