[Gllug] Analysing worm traffic

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Mon Sep 29 14:15:53 UTC 2003


On Mon 29 Sep Simon Wilcox wrote:
> I don't expect that complaining to their helldesk is likely to do anything
> other than raise my blood pressure as they must already know how
> widespread this infection is yet they seem to be doing nothing about it.

What would you like them to do?
 
> So my question is - does anyone know how much traffic is generated by each
> attempt ? I'm guessing that it's not much but since the activity light on
> my cable modem is pretty much permanently on these days, it would be nice
> to know at what point I could claim a denial of service and start talking 
> about compensation !

I don't think any ISP in the world will pay you compensation for traffic
you claim not to want.

doug.

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