I have a half finished presentation on doing protocol analysis with your 
access point and it involves this virus and other things ... it does involve 
snort however (www.snort-wireless.org), your case is a good example of IDS 
over IPS, but it normally does have to involve another machine to "filter" 
content through, in which case most people don't normally do - since the 
applications don't come with todays common residential access points.  

DSL -> AP -> FILTER -> SWITCH/HUB

Im hoping to finished this presentation + show off the customized Linksys AP 
w/ Snort (im sure Pebble/Soekris could be made to do the same exact thing)

- Jon


On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:36, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what other node owners are doing about the recent
> onslaught of Windows viruses and worms. I've been seeing more and more
> machines trying to open literally 10,000 connections on the Internet per
> minute (and filling up the NAT state table), and it seems due to the
> Welchia virus.
>
> Between this and the viruses / worms which flood our email boxes with
> "Current Network Security Update" emails, it seems we are suck constantly
> administering to the lowest common denominator. I do not own any Microsoft
> products, but I am constantly bombarded with Microsoft problems.
>
> So what are other people doing to reduce this deluge of garbage? I did not
> want to block outgoing access to port 25 from my free networks, but I was
> forced to do so; I do not like limiting the kinds of traffic that people
> can use from the free networks, but if I don't, then a few people with
> viruses can clog the whole connection for everyone else.
>
> What are other people doing?
>
> John Klos
> Sixgirls Computing Labs

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