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Swedish ISP Blocks Computers That Send Spam

Posted by timothy on from the overkill-or-overdue dept.

snuppepuppan writes "One of Sweden's largest ISPs, Telia starts to block computers that send spam. 'The computers that Telia will block are primarily those that have been infected with "trojans" which are being used, without the customer's knowledge, to send enormous amounts of spam.'"

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  1. In a related story... by bobdotorg · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a related story, Microsoft sues Telia, commenting, "C'mon, it would only be a matter of time before all Outlook and IE users get banned from the net."

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  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    * Police arrest citizens who break the law
    * Shools suspend students who bully
    * Bouncers eject drunken louts
    etc...

  3. Re:Workable Solution??? by jhunsake · · Score: 4, Funny

    internet activity of the victim/perpetrator to a static web page

    Repeat after me: the internet is not the www and vice-versa

  4. WHY? by sinserve · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shouldn't this be "YRO" instead of "Spam"? One man's spammer is another's Information Minister.

  5. cliche! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one welcome our new swedish spam blocking overlords.

  6. Sweden? by LadyLucky · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not try a holiday in Sweden this year?

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    1. Re:Sweden? by Detritus · · Score: 3, Funny
      See the loveli lakes

      The wonderful telephone system

      And mani interesting furry animals

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  7. Re:You get stung, you react. by BJH · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sunspots!!

  8. Not so gray an area by 87C751 · · Score: 4, Funny
    if they take action against spam, they must take action against kiddie porn, warez etc.
    Not necessarily. My ISP (Fuze) recently started blocking outbound port 25 connections unless directed to their SMTP server. Shortly after that, I heated up an older box I have, which used to be the house mailserver. Of course, there was some traffic stuck in its mail queue, which it tried to send. Fuze suspended my service (reported with a web page shown when I tried to go out on the web) until I called the helpdesk. They did this purely based on the appearance of the traffic, and not on the content.

    The conversation with the helpdesk guy was kinda amusing, though.

    HDG: "Are you familiar with a program called Zone Alarm?"

    Me: "Sure. Are you familiar with the SMC Barricade router?"

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  9. Clueless? by Dr.+q00p · · Score: 2, Funny

    Chain of events:

    1. The ISP AOL begins bouncing all e-mail from the ISP Telia due to large amounts of SPAM from some of Telias DSL customers.

    2. Telia blocks all of their DSL customers (companies and individuals) outgoing SMTP (port 25) traffic.

    3. eddy states (correctly) that: Telia is mostly known for their suckage over here. They've made several false starts, including blocking SMTP completely at their border making it impossible to host ones own mail server.

    4. BetterThanCaesar asks (regarding Telias SMTP blocking): What would you have done?

    5. I answer: Maybe they (clarification for the clueless: "they" is a reference to the ISP Telia) should have blocked the ones sending out SPAM, instead of everybody! Do you honestly think that innocent companies (another clarification for the clueless: these "companies" are customers of Telia) and individuals should be punished? Oh, and without notice by the way.

    6. You claim that: The ISP is not innocent; it is their job to enforce policies and to be a good citizen on the net. Unfortunately to block an ISP you do block customers by extension, but this is the only way to get ISPs to do something.

    7. We conclude that you are clueless, and apparently /. as well since you been modded to a score of 2....eh, hmmm....well I guess we knew the last bit, but I expected more from you.