[LINK] itNews re the iCode and Botnet Countermeasures
Jan Whitaker
jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Wed Apr 4 09:59:22 AEST 2012
At 09:30 AM 4/04/2012, Roger Clarke wrote:
>Telstra, which implements the code despite withdrawing its membership
>and financial support from the IIA last year, criticised the body's
>continuing reliance on a voluntary mechanism, which it said provided
>"no incentive for smaller ISPs to comply as compared to registered
>codes".
I raised the malware shut-off issue with our local computer club last
week. One question I was asked was would Bigpond be more affected
than the others. My take on it was that it was logical were that to
be found because of the market dominance of Bigpond. I wonder if we
will ever find out the distribution of the 10,000 suspected infected
computers. The smaller providers are not necessarily the ones who
will have the most people with problems.
The other issue is: how are they communicating with the infected
parties? I know people who don't even use the email assigned to them
by their ISPs (don't access it in any way, instead using gmail or
some other transferable email provider) or whose mailboxes are so
full they wouldn't get the alert if it were sent. Yet they are still
on the net. And they wouldn't have a clue that this shut-down was
going to take place.
There is also the risk of receiving email from people purporting to
be your supplier (or bank or whatever "authority") without certainty
it is from them.
The best approach to handling this latest problem was the DNS test
provide to everyone in the country. That sort of collaboration would
be a much better approach, I reckon.
Jan
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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