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Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-fella-you're-wetting-the-sandbox dept.

daria42 writes "Australia's largest ISP, Telstra BigPond, has started disconnecting customers that it suspects have excess traffic-causing trojans installed on their PCs. The trojans have been flooding BigPond's DNS servers and causing extremely slow DNS requests for around a month now. Despite nightly additions of DNS servers, BigPond appears to be unable to cope with the extra traffic on its network." Note that the article says the disconnections are temporary and accompanied by communication with the affected customers, not just a big yanking-of-carpet.

2 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Mathematically... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Actually anyone in Australia who is using Linux would not be using Big Pond anyway.

  2. Re:Cox Business ISP Does This by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You know what? You're stupid.

    Is it the phone company's responsibility if you keep harassing a person over the phone? Is it their responsibility if you constantly mis-use 911? Should they disconnect you if you claim fire and there's none?

    Why should an internet data carrier do those very things? The only reason I could see to disconnect a line are 2 things: Not paying, and gross negligence to the physical line or direct customers' lines (we're talking about physical line abuse here, not 1's and 0's).

    Then again, if you like the nanny state, go right ahead.

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