Re: [cobalt-security] NIMDA Attacks - Anyway to deny requests?

[Ted Behling <TBehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:35 PM 9/22/01, David Yates Buckley wrote:
> One thing that is interesting to note: say you are using a firewall to access
> your raq, and it is masquerading, and one of your pc's in your office got
> infected, or even say there is some idiot in the office with a twisted sense
> of humour that has bookmarked your own raq with winnt/system32 then you
> suddely are locked out of your raq! And I believe you could be locked out
> for quite a while! So when if in doubt, don't muck around with your raq,
> that explains all these pkgs and patches etc...

I had the same thought when I first read about this script.  I advise 
against automatically blocking source IPs, as infected machines behind a 
proxy server or NAT router would cause ALL machines behind that gateway to 
be blocked.  Think AOL.

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