[Gllug] Virus on Linux/Mac

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Fri Sep 21 15:46:45 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:39 +0100, t.clarke wrote:
> On the subject of spambots  -if ISPs were forced to:
> a) block outgoing smtp port connections from all machines with dynamic IP
> addresses
> b) bock outgoing smtp port connections from all machines with static IP
> addresses that havn't registered with them as a mail-sender
> 
> that might reduce the volume of spam considerably.

Yes and we could also block all other forms of traffic until to register
to send it. Of course you'd then have no internet as providers would
apply the same to each other.

We can either have a "safe" internet or one that works.

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