Mr O, Due to the many problems with Windows (X Product) and the fact that Microsoft does not spend lots of time searching for defects. ( I do have to say Microsoft has done a 180 on the security front.) You can't tell people not up date there virus scanning software. If you can't afford to update the software download ClamAV. There is a majority of security analysts and researchers who own Apple Macintosh and use ClamAV. Why because the OS X versions of Symantec and McAfee products are not as good as ClamAV. ClamAV does a good job for a OpenSource product. If you have a server and can afford other software you should run ClamAV as well as X product. Defense in depth is what it's called. I have always been a believer in the layered security approach.
Now on the $ISP front. I know there is no money in shutting off paying costumers. You don't really have to shut them off. Just filter everything except E-Mail Traffic. You can also redirect there web requests to a static page that says. Your machine has been identifying as having malware. You should investigate X sites and passably load X software on your computer. If you really have malware on your machine you may need to format and reinstall your software. If you look at the PSTN network if your causing problems. You will be blocked. If you are causing signaling problems ( on the SS7 network links ) you will be dropped. Problems on the PST are very far and few. LD networks ( There are not any LD carriers anymore with the 1996 Telcom reform act sec 272. ) do rate limiting of calls all the time on there switches. They do this so call volumes don't cause a overload of the switch paths to and from there switches. They all so do this to not cause SS7 signaling problems and overloading the links to and from there switches and other SS7 links going to other carriers. The Internet is different on the protocol level (Less different with the PSTN Soft Switches and packet switching switches. Like the Lucent 7RE and other packet switching phone switches.) $ISP and other Internet traffic carriers should rate limit and or drop bad traffic. The reason is if you don't you get DDOS attacks and attacks on the infrastructure like the ROOT Server attack last week. I know it's hard to stop and rate limit DDOS attacks but if you monitor your network and see one or more customers sending a T1 or DS3 rate of traffic to a IP address you should have the right to rate limit. Due to VoIP and other RTP applications you are going to see $ISP's controlling the quality of service. I don't think you should have different tires based on traffic. You should have different tires biased on how much bandwidth you want to use. Like it or not if you don't keep your pipes clean and or offer QOS services to end users and business users. You will be out of business if your a $ISP because you will not be offering the same or higher level of service that the RBOC / CLEC / ILEC providers are offering. Just my personal option and view on how things are going. -Miller _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
