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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. Statistical analysis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    of traffic can easily be used to find and stop spammers. I am amazed that all ISP are not doing this.

  2. This is news? TOS Enforcement is new? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is this news? My local ISP has been doing this for years. It's called "enforcing terms of service" on offending accounts.

  3. Re:My work's ISP does a variation of this by NorwBlue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, I did not wonder why You went with a startup for business. I Used to be Head of Computing in a company that spend around 2 mill $ and when we dropped the biggest computer supplier in Norway for a small startup, guess what : We went from being a ok account in a huge company to being the biggest account in a small company (It more than trippeled its sales). We suddenly got really good service, better prices and every one we called for help/support/service bent backwards for us(when we wanted them to, wich wasn't that often*evil grin of power*) So my advice to everyone managing a net is : don't follow the big fish, but find a place where You ARE the biggest fish. A bit off topic maybe, but if everyone did the same when it came to ISP services, YOU to would have leverage if you wanted your ISP to implement something similar.