____/ ed on Saturday 18 August 2007 15:27 : \____
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:05:14 +0100
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Universities warned of Storm Worm attacks
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Between the beginning of June and the end of July, the cumulative
>> number of | internet addresses trying to send spam jumped to 1.7
>> million, averaging about | 100,000 addresses each day.
>> `----
>
> Yeah, JANET operators soon get pissed off with Universities who don't
> control the students.
>
> I remember ours using a squid HTTP proxy.
>
> But just think about all those students who are walking around with
> ancient laptops with window 98 + a load of spyware.... I'd hate to be
> the net admin there.
My daytime job is around JANET and there have been some serious congestion
issues some months ago. In fact, in December the mail server got knocked down
by excessive Windows spewage.
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