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From: David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ISP filtering - update
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:33:52 -0400
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> a DDOS server. The worms that immediately destroy registry files etc. seem
> to get the media attention but they are relatively a thing of the past. The
> modern ones don't call attention to themselves.

Ehg noted recently that one DSL provider says that 1/3 of the machines attaching
to his service are already infected and the owners don't know it.  Perhaps they're
switching from Cable to DSL because the cable network seems to have gotten slower...