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  Witty Nickname, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 2:17pm

  
  

  Of course they dont stop it

  Can you imagine the bad P.R. of some novice computer user on TV saying "I don't have any viruses, my computer works, and they took down the internet I paid for."
  
  In major metro areas they can probably choose between DSL and cable, if one of those choices cuts you off for having viruses (a LOT of people have viruses) which one is going to loose customers?

   

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  Mike, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 7:28pm

  
  

  Re: Of course they dont stop it

  Most TOS/AUP give the ISP the right to protect their network and cut the offending users internet off.
  I give our customers 5 working days to get their systems cleaned up, then if I do not see any improvement, I cut them off until they can prove to me their are clean.

   

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  Name, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 2:24pm

  
  

  Maybe send them an email notification or phone call. I would think most people would try to fix it. Better than not telling them at all.

   

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  Lee, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 2:35pm

  
  

  dumbass system admins

  They just don't care and the problem goes beyond identifying bots in their systems. When bots send spam they forge the sender. They have done that forever and yet mail that can't be delivered gets "returned" to someone who never sent it because dumbass system admins just don't care. That multiplies the spam traffic on the net. You would think that these dumbass system admins could set up their mail daemons to verify that the IP of the sender actually matches the IP that sent the mail. They would only have to do this for mail being returned but, once they have identified a bot this way they could block that IP and stop all the spam coming into their system from that bot but, nooooo. Sysadmins are too busy being dumb.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 2:49pm

  
  

  I have an automated script that sends emails with complains to respective abuse@...... whenever it detects that somebody's trying to bruteforce my system. So far about 1-2% of the notified admins responded, and they have been real people, as opposed to corporations. China is notoriously bad at that: their abuse@... addresses often bounce saying "mailbox too full" ;)

   

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  MrGutts, Sep 10th, 2007 @ 4:54pm

  
  

  In short in the U.S., yes.. They are in the business to make money and not in the business to fix peoples computers..

   

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  chris (profile), Sep 11th, 2007 @ 7:30am

  
  

  three reasons it'll never happen

  1) people refuse to take responsibility for their computers
  2) people refuse to take responsibility for their actions
  3) people refuse to take steps to mitigate the impact of 1&2
  
  if people refuse to take responsibility for their actions, refuse to take responsibility for their computers, they will most assuredly refuse to take responsibility for their computer's actions.

   

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  Richard Ahlquist (profile), Sep 11th, 2007 @ 12:42pm

  
  

  Hell yes they ignore it

  Check out prjects like Dshield or My Net Watchman, completely automated systems that watch for attacks and notify their ISP or owner of the attacking ISP. I have been a member of both and the sheer lack of response is repulsive. If my firewall detects 26,000 attempted varying ID's and passwords from an IP address then the blasted ISP should do something about it, but they DONT.

   

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