Comments on: Australian ISPs tapped to kill zombies

Unwitting owners of zombie computers will be notified, and their PCs disinfected or, if need be, disconnected.

[i_made_this]

start of a good trend

now that the ISP's are providing their members more and more with total security suites to protect against the whole gamut of internet plagues including zombies, worms, spam, malware, viruses, etc, it is far overdue that the ISP's no longer have anyone left to blame for such incidents beyond themselves. this is the healthy side to utilising your ISP's security suite: if it's ineffective at properly protecting your system, you cannot be blamed.

[heystoopid]

Conspiracy theory 101

Conspiracy theory 101, certain secret departments, within the government spy organizations,will want these Zombies for their own nefarious ends, ie great for loading evidence on innocent victims of their own incompetence and create the new terrorist by supposition and imputation(al la De Menzes for the first 48 hours after his deliberate murder at Stockwell train station by serving police officer??? in the UK, then strangely the real truth has started to emerge at a snails pace since) Don't forget Aussie cops have the new shoot to kill anti- terror laws just passed with new amendments, to put back all that was taken out previously and a few new ones added for a generous measure(that sedition law section quite literally kills all forms of political parody!) Oh well, such is life!

[wbenton]

They're going about it the wrong way!

I think the major part of the problem is the following phrase:

>>>The five ISPs will regularly receive a list of IP addresses identifying those computers on their networks that have been demonstrating "zombie-like" behavior. The ISPs then will be responsible for contacting customers and helping disinfect their computers.<<<

I think they're taking the wrong approach. Why MUST they give the ISP's a list of zombied PC IP addresses? If the ISP's were the least bit responsible... they should already be monitoring their own users and thus know without being informed from elsewhere of what their users were doing and take the appropriate action which is disconnect them from the internet until they either fix the problem themselves or get somebody to help them clean up their PC.

What they need to be doing is to warn those ISP's that their internet license WILL be revoked if they don't get their $%#! together and become a responsible ISP... (* LOL *)

Because the problem is NOT so much that the users are unaware of it... but the ISP's are either unaware of it or are aware of it but don't want to do anything about it.

Bottom Line: Irresponsible ISP's breed irresponsible users!!!

Walt