Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs

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.

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Re:Drastic Measures

[Arghdee]

To expand on this, a lot of you non-australians should probably know that Telstra Bigpond is the ISP that people choose when they don't know any better.

Value for money wise they rate very poorly compared to the opposition - for ADSL at least.

For those of you that don't know, Telstra is a part government owned company, which owns much of the telco infrastructure in Australia. They like to make life difficult for any competitors.

Also one of the few ISPs in Australia that charges traffic in both directions.

Just in case you guys care :)

Plusnet has a better way.

[Zeussy]

My isp (plus.net) monitors any communications on port 135 etc and if it dedicates any when your connected. You get redirected to a Plus.net you may have been effected with MSBlast page etc. And give you the links to tools to fix it.

Very handy indeed.