Let me clarify what Kevin just said:
If you are a VDSL (TV) customer, your ports are already blocked. My
machines that are located on my LAN at home haven't seen ONE instance of
this (I have the 1MB up/ 1MB down service).
If you are a DSL (Megabit) customer, your ports are not blocked. I
think this is because they mix residential and business customers on the
same IP space. If you are a residential customer, your TOS states that
you aren't allowed to run services behind their IP space. Business
customers OTOH are allowed to run services.
The reason I know this is because when Qwest blocked ports to VDSL
customers way back (
http://www.garynichols.com/stories.php?story=47) I
called and screamed foul. I really didn't expect to get anywhere, I
just like yelling at Qwest. *grin*
Cheers,
Gary
On 07 Aug 2001 06:37:36 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Actually that's not true. Qwest/Cox could stop it from hitting their customers
> by putting in an Access Control List (ACL) in the routers. According to my TOS
> I'm not allowed to be running any services, so if they block incoming requests
> to ports less than 1024, or just block the individual ports (21,22,23,80,
> etc...) then this worm wouldn't be able to affect any of Qwest's/Cox's
> non-business users. The problem is they have chosen not to do this.
>
> > > Just had a crazy thought about all this RC mess. How about writing an
> > > anti-worm-worm (or vaccine) that uses the same infection method, but
> > > removes all copies of the RC and RCII worm from the system, notifies the
> > > system admin of each box it's run on and then kills itself after a
> > > specified date? You could then write a script on your apache system that
> > > logs the IP of the infected host, and then schedules an
> > > anti-infection-infection to be run later. Whaddya think? Good, bad, ugly?
> > > =op
>
> > What if this same program installed a batch file or AT command to launch the
> > antivirus and or just go to windows update and get the patch for this worm.
> > Better yet just formatted the HD. Because of it I have extremely low
> > bandwidth, 60-100kbps on my cable modem which usually has downstream
> > throughput of 2+mbps, my brother in-law has Qwest DSL and can't even get
> > online because of this thing. The worst part is they (Cox/Qwest) can do
> > nothing about it.
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