Swedish ISP Blocks Computers That Send Spam

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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[bobdotorg]

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."

Re:Workable Solution???

[jhunsake]

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

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

WHY?

[sinserve]

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

Not so gray an area

[87C751]

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?"