RE: drone armies C&C report - July/2005

Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the Internet community. Their alerts allow to responsible network admins to investigate and to preserve their networks clean of debris like spyware and trojans.

Do what you want with your networks, but PLEASE keep the Internet clean.

Abra�os,
Marlon Borba, CISSP.

Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the Internet
community. Their alerts allow to responsible network admins to

I don't think anyone disputed the 'good work'. The dispute, as often is
the case with these sorts of reports, is 'where did the data come from and
how much can I get to send along to my customer who is the real problem in
this case?'

investigate and to preserve their networks clean of debris like spyware
and trojans.

'investigation' often ends with: "this is customer 12, tell them to fix
it" which means sending down logs/info/help/blah to get customer 12 to
understand and believe there is a problem. :frowning:

Do what you want with your networks, but PLEASE keep the Internet clean.

Sure thing, note the coming shutdown for vaccuuming up the old/stale/lost
packets please.

MARLON BORBA wrote:

Going further I think IL-CERT is doing a great service to the Internet community. Their alerts allow to responsible network admins to investigate and to preserve their networks clean of debris like spyware and trojans.

Do what you want with your networks, but PLEASE keep the Internet clean.

Thanks for the compliments, Marlon, but this service is unrelated to the Israeli CERT, as stated.
:slight_smile:

The people behind the drone armies list are net-ops guys who care, just like you. With AV-ers, researchers, and other vetted individuals.

  Gadi.