On May 4, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Russell McMahon wrote:

> If anyone here can make a more useful comment
> than that, please do.

According to our propaganda, cisco has some equipment that
detects traffic patterns typical of MalWare and will do things
like shutting off that port of the switch.  I don't enough about
those product lines to tell how much is true and how much is
hype, but it certainly seems like it ought to be possible
to do something like that (without the "shut down" part)
in a relatively small number of cycles in a network monitoring
box or app.

BillW
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