Re: Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help)

2007-06-17 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote: For that matter, why don't ISPs start doing that: Introduce a fine. When somebody gets infected, and thus doesn't take good care of his/her/it's computer fine them. Let them pay say $25 to get fully back on the Internet and only allow a very slow rate of

Quarantining infected hosts (Was: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help)

2007-06-17 Thread Jeroen Massar
Frank Bulk wrote: > The Billy Goat product only seems to detect and notify nefarious activity, > but it does nothing for the owned clients. > > I want something that restricts my owned subscribers to downloading updates > and tools while preventing them from spewing forth more spam and the like.

Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 6/17/07, Frank Bulk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the 2+ years I have been working for an ISP I'm not aware of one customer that has gone over to one of our competitors because we identified and cut them off for an abuse issue. Most of them have been very grateful that we identified a probl