Death
gh0d (Administrator)
I don't currently do network stuff on the corporate level, but my previous job was working the abuse desk at AboveNet, a major backbone provider with multiple terabits of total bandwidth. 300 e-mail complaints a day was a "slow" day, and often it would quite handily surpass twice that amount. I may not have been a server admin, but my word was generally enough to cut entire OC-3s or bigger off due to abuse from the customer hanging off of that particular line (where it wasn't sufficient was when AN legal came into play... gh0d, I hated those sphincterboys), and I did occasionally get log access, to see just what kind of crap went down in the length of a few hours.
Most of the guys at grcsucks.com (which I can now access, BTW... temp network fuckery has cleared up) aren't just random yahoos off the street, either, and go into great detail to examine Gibson's hucksterism and lack of accurate information.
Now, as for ZoneAlarm, so what if someone looking for an infected machine pokes at your box? If it's not infected, you have nothing to worry about (assuming you're not a total retard that runs every file they ever see... I don't know you, DA, so I can't really make a judgement on that particular point). The popup has [MiB]precisely dick[/MiB] to do with any real defense of your system, it just makes you think that the money you spent on ZA (sucker!) was worth it.
As TC said, though, if ZA is the only thing keeping your network from dying a horrid death, you have a seriously screwed up system. Get thee to a competent network sysadmin.
Most of the guys at grcsucks.com (which I can now access, BTW... temp network fuckery has cleared up) aren't just random yahoos off the street, either, and go into great detail to examine Gibson's hucksterism and lack of accurate information.
Now, as for ZoneAlarm, so what if someone looking for an infected machine pokes at your box? If it's not infected, you have nothing to worry about (assuming you're not a total retard that runs every file they ever see... I don't know you, DA, so I can't really make a judgement on that particular point). The popup has [MiB]precisely dick[/MiB] to do with any real defense of your system, it just makes you think that the money you spent on ZA (sucker!) was worth it.
As TC said, though, if ZA is the only thing keeping your network from dying a horrid death, you have a seriously screwed up system. Get thee to a competent network sysadmin.