> Is the Government agency responsible for the source network > related to your company in any way? > > A. Not in any way. > > > If not, then what right do they have to ask that? > > A. The govt. agency in question is citing "National Security".
Sounds to me like they're blowing smoke. I can't see how logfiles showing the IP Addresses of systems where virus traffic is coming from could affect National Security. If the traffic can get from there to you, then they're public addresses anyway. > In any case, why aren't they doing something about their > virus problem? > > A. They are scrambling like crazy to resolve the problem. All > I know is the > network in question suddenly disappeared. I can no longer > traceroute to or > ping it (even from another location). Apparently they took my input > seriously. Hope the logs helped them! Good that they at least took the problem seriously to do something about it. > Anyway, the filter seems to have done the job (so far). > > Can you explain how the traffic I saw would crash both Gnatbox and the > Router? Nope. Sounds like it's acting (intentionally or not) like a denial-of-service attack. It may even be that the traffic is coming from a new virus/worm that intentionally performs a denial of service. A conspiracy theorist might think that you were the target of Government bitheads testing electronic warfare tools that they are developing -- hence the National Security concerns sited above. :)
