[Gllug] Intrusion detection rates

[Wiehe, Simon]

On Fri 27 May, Russell Howe wrote:
> 

> 
> Intrusion attempts and viral emails (or spam emails) are seperate.
> 
> IPcop will be reporting trojaned/cracked/hacked/etc boxes scanning your
> IP address(es) for vulnerabilities to exploit. I guess the BT address
> ranges are just more popular than the Demon ones (either that or demon
> does packet filtering of some sort...)
> 

I would have thought it is more likely that technical savvy people use 
Demon but Joe Public uses BT. Therefore the Demon users are less likely
to have a virus running on their machine trying to propagate to every
other address in its subnet, whereas Joe Public bumble along wondering
why their PC is running slow blissfully unaware that they are spreading
disease.

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