On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote:
I don't see the problem here -- just a basic on/off filter for some of the common services would be a great starting point.
I don't think you realize how hard this sort of thing is to impliment. At the minimum it's and extra serive for your account, associated documentation, advertising and training for staff. Then it's some sort of firewall that has to be triggered when you login (or when your ip changes due to dhcp lease expiring) which means it much be tied into the customer database and radius servers. Then it's an online options page for you to select exactly what you want plus some ducumentation. At a minimum it would be a few thousand worth of staff time to setup (lots more for someone big like Xtra) which you then have to trade off against projected income, costs etc. Remember, the traffic is already going to your ip so your ISP is paying for it. Small aside, how much traffic do these worms do to machine that are not listening on port 80 anyway? I would have only thought a couple of packets when they request a new connection and get connection refused ?
I feel a story coming on...
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