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NETI@home Data Analyzed

Posted by timothy on from the sharpen-your-knives dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NETI@home Internet traffic statistics project (featured in Wired and Slashdot previously) has a quick analysis on the malicious traffic they observed. It's a rough world out there." Perhaps not suprising, but still disheartening, the researchers find among other things that a large portion of typical end-user traffic consists of malicious connection attempts.

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  1. But did they find intelligent life? by miracle69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's what we need to know.

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    1. Re:But did they find intelligent life? by eobanb · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, they found people with a bunch of Windows Services on and all their ports open. Does that answer your question?

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  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeti@home has yet to yield conclusive results.

  3. Root of the problem by SamMichaels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ignoring all complaints about Windows, the root of the problem goes back to having access to the network in the first place. If ISPs would spent a few bucks on implementing passive traffic analyzers to search for the viral/trojan patterns and null route offenders, we'd clean things up pretty quick. Why do we have all these piracy probes going on to sue people and no infected probes going on to cut people's access?

    Now, stepping back to the Windows complaints...wouldn't the ISP turning off your access motivate you to get a BASIC education in computing and maintain your PC?

    To make an analogy, in most states you need to have your car inspected (and some require emissions inspection, too). PUBLIC roadways means you share it with other people...an unsafe car affects more than just you. When you're connected to the net, your PC affects everyone else. I'm not suggesting the ISPs make an inspection system or a law passes to force ISPs to monitor traffic, but the same logic applies....someone should be doing checkups and flagging the offenders.