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How To Avoid a Botnet Infection?
Taco Cowboy writes "Two of the networks in the company I work for have been zombified by different botnets. They are taken off the grid as we speak. We thought we had taken precautions against infection, such as firewall and anti-viral programs, but for some reasons we have failed. Is there any list of precautionary steps available?" I'd suggest port blocking 80 for any computer that is detected running a web browser, but that might prevent some percentage of legitimate work.
Yup.
Competent users maybe?
Stop letting users use your computers
Yes! While we're on it, lets fire all the people in the company! They just bring expenses and fuck things up!
Funny looking at this post and then seeing your signature
AmIright?
Urnotrong.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
Looks like you need to block Google as well! http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com
Competent users maybe?
As far as "programming errors" go, I'd label "expect competent users" as "#1".
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
my neck of the No-Go's still bans USB drives...I have to email all my botnet viruses to the training NCO.... like a freaking ape!
THL phish sticks
I say we take off and nuke the entire [system] from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
If you reply, do so only to what I explicitly wrote. If I didn't write it, don't assume or infer it.
#1? So what's the error above that?
That's easy, #0: Expect competent programmers.
Do you Gentoo!?
having dinner with Capt Obvious.
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