Sprint Broad Band

[Ken Bowley]

I've got that three page letter sitting at home as well.  I pretty much
just laughed at it.  All three of my computers are running Linux, with
one of them acting as a filewall/NAT box.  I'm still contemplating giving
them a call to talk to them about it.. just for the fun of it. :)

> I just received a letter from SBB telling me "We have recently learned
> that your PC is infected with one or more viruses or Trojan Horses."
> 
> Well, since they suggested I consider a firewall, and since they claim
> to have a firewall, and since I do have a linux firewall - I was rather
> panicked!  I ran around the house checking the virtual PC's (vmware) and
> any other PC's that might have had consentual contact with those on my
> network.  There was nothing as described or as they intimated or that
> showed up in all my logs/virus scanners.
> 
> So, to find out what I had missed (since they explained their innocent
> port scans which I have been seeing for a long time had found this
> illness), I called.  I asked what in particular they had found (as I
> really wanted to know how to plug the hole) and the techno-wizard that
> answered (after 10 minutes or so) said that "it should have been worded
> differently - you don't have a virus, but it could happen".  So,
> basically, they send out spam snail mail letters to cover their A** in
> case their network might be compromised and the lawyers show up.  No
> matter that I try my best to "keep clean" - just send out the bulk email
> telling me I'm infected!
> 
> I'm still searching (for an alternative)...
> 
> -Doug
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:23:10 -0700
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> From: Jim Gunkel <jimg@nevrona.com>
> Subject: RE: Sprint Broad Band
> orp.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> 
> At 16:11 10/26/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >You lucky I NEVER get 0 0xbffff51cacket loss.
> >my stats are somewere
> >12 - 35  0xbffff51cacket loss
> >although I have seen worse results.
> 
> I figured I had beaten up on them enough on the message so I didn't want
> to
> mention that about 527777772434f the time that we click on a link in the
> browser,
> it comes back with an error message (i.e. lost packet) and we have to
> reload to get the page again.  About every 5 or 6 pings I get a "request
> timed out" error, but since Windows' brain-dead ping program counts that
> as
> a 0ms time, it makes the Average number look better than it is so I
> included one with all hits.  This lost packet rate is usually much worse
> in
> the late afternoons.
> 
> Jim Gunkel
> Nevrona Designs
> 
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