I work for an ISP. I can not speak for all ISPs, but at least ours responds to every one we get. Many times with the Earlybird program (a very nice program I use myself) it also gets sent to our upstream provider who tell us about it. If we can't get ahold of that user, we simply filter their ip address in our routers, or something to get their attention. Please don't always just blame the ISPs, because some of them out there really do attempt to stop it. We hate spam and viruses just as much as everyone else. -- Matt Andreko -----Original Message----- From: Blue Boar [mailto:BlueBoarat_private] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 3:50 PM To: RSnake Cc: Luis Pinto; Deus, Attonbitus; vuln-devat_private Subject: Re: Publishing Nimda Logs RSnake wrote: > I am not ashamed to say I was infected by a virus, and I was not warned > by anyone. I eventually did a netstat in cygwin and found it myself. This is > a bad assumption. I appears that ISPs (in general; there are exceptions, of course) do a poor job of notifying the end user when they get a notice. An outside person generally has no mechanism to determine the end user themselves. Think about it... how many of you have given your ISP your main email address or phone number, so they can contact you in case of problems? My ISP gave me some sort of email address when I signed up for DSL, and I have never once bothered to see if there is mail in there. I have 5 of my own addresses, domains, etc... thanks. Since I have DSL, they do happen to have my phone number. BB
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