[Mimedefang] FTC asks ISPs to crack down on zombie PCs

James Ebright jebright at esisnet.com
Thu May 26 15:16:29 EDT 2005


On Thu, 26 May 2005 15:05:26 -0400, James Ebright wrote

> I am not saying we are fool proof, but this attack seems unlikely 
> enough to succeed that is it would be unreasonable for us 
> inconvenience to our customer base by blocking port 25, not to 
> mention we would probably detect it as a potential DOS attack via 
> our IDS fairly quickly anyway simply due to the latency/traffic it 
> would cause.

This should read port 25 incoming... /sigh/ returned from vacation, still
catching up on sleep as well as email. ;-)

Jim
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