Botnet assault: Spammers launch DDoS offensive

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Want to eliminate BotNets and all this crap?

It's really easy, it takes a router expert and the will to force ISPs to take control of their networks. It works, I have personally forced several ISPs to disable spammers from their networks, it just comes down to sheer force of will on the part of Govt to mandate ISPs do something about spammers.

Here's the deal, if I work for Time Warner Cable, for example. I am allowed by management (the new Govt mandate where sticking your head in the sand and doing nothing doesn't fly anymore).

I monitor for spammers and botnets and networks coming into my network, and one by one, the routing entries for those domains disappears, thrown into the big bitbucket in the sky.

I monitor for botnets I serve, and with software tools, each computer becomes blocked, banned from internet access until such time as the computer is dis-infected or de-0wned. That's where the will comes in. They can identify these 0wned computers easily, but it is worth more to them to allow the spamming computer to access the network and get their money than it is to deal with angry customers who are told their access is blocked until they resolve their security issues.

Now, I would suspect DRAMATIC resistance from one OS company to a plan such as this because outside of technical circles, the incredible scale of 0wned computers is not known by the general public.

In any event, if I was IT manager for Time Warner Cable, and had 200 experienced techs, spam streams originating in my network would be virtually eliminated, and streams of spam crap coming in from overseas would be well on it's way to being a don't care, both of which happening within 2 weeks.

The problem is, no one seems to want to address the real problem, tens or many tens of millions of 0wned machines.

TripleII

Posted by: TripleII   Posted on: 06/11/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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