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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