RE: Spammers exploit high-speed connections, careless users
RE: Spammers exploit high-speed connections, careless users
So they have antivirus and firewalls running. Big deal. Do you know
how many people I run into that have both but the antivirus is out of
date by a matter of 6 months? Or the firewall isn't configured
properly because frankly the end user has no clue what should have
access to the internet and what should not? 99% of the people I do
freelance tech. support for fall into this category. I preach, but do
they listen? Hell no! I'm not talking about only the single end user
at home. I'm also talking about multi-million dollar small businesses
who gawk at the cost of protecting all their systems and the cost
involved in maintaining that protection not to mention the
"inconvenience" factor. You can lead a horse to water but, I'll be
damned if you can make him drink.
No what needs to be done is since the big ISP's are so nosey to begin
with they can also scan their customers for indications of infections.
Once found that user or entire network should be blocked from
accessing anything other than a proxy that displays a single page
explaining why their access has been denied and offering a means to
clean/patch their system to regain access to the rest of the world.
Infections should be quarantined. It won't prevent initial infection
but it would severely curb continued infection. Forcing the customers
to clean and patch their systems would kill two birds with one stone.
Because ISP's fear they'd lose business over the issue it'll never
happen unless it is legislated.
Short of denying them access or a virus with a devastating payload
there will be no change in attitudes.
