[Mimedefang] Accuracy of infected IP in mdlog

John john at jjgb.com
Mon May 17 13:35:34 EDT 2004


I am the System Admin of an ISP in Billings and will shut down access to 
infected machines also, although company policy dictates I give them a 
warning first.  I usually give them until the end of the first day I give 
them notice.  After that, CLICK, off it goes...

At 08:32 AM 5/17/2004, you wrote:
>On 05/17/04 at 10:25, 'twas brillig and Joseph Brennan scrobe:
> > --On Monday, May 17, 2004 10:14 AM -0400 "David F. Skoll"
> > <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, there's a very large ISP in Canada (Sympatico) that shuts down
> > > customers if it detects that they are sending out viruses.  You don't get
> > > your connectivity back until you have proven your machine is clean.
> >
> >
> > A large university in New York does the same thing!
>
>         As does a large(ish) university in Massachusetts.
>
>
>                 Ole
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