The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Recommendations for the Remediation of Bots in ISP Networks' (draft-oreirdan-mody-bot-remediation-20.txt) as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-oreirdan-mody-bot-remediation/ Technical Summary This document contains recommendations on how Internet Service Providers can manage the effects of computers used by their subscribers, which have been infected with malicious bots, via various remediation techniques. Internet users with infected computers are exposed to risks such as loss of personal data, as well as increased susceptibility to online fraud and/or phishing. Such computers can also become an inadvertent participant in or component of an online crime network, spam network, and/or phishing network, as well as be used as a part of a distributed denial of service attack. Mitigating the effects of and remediating the installations of malicious bots will make it more difficult for botnets to operate and could reduce the level of online crime on the Internet in general and/or on a particular Internet Service Provider's network. Working Group Summary N/A - This document is an Individual Submission sponsored by an Area Director. Document Quality The document reflects accepted best practice promulgated by The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) (http://www.maawg.org) outside the IETF. The document has been reviewed on the IETF OPSEC mailing list notably by Joel Jaeggli and Danny McPherson among others. Personnel Document Shepherd: Elwyn Davies Responsible/Sponsoring Area Director: Stephen Farrell _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
