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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.

3 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. Re:My 1st Thoughts by imsabbel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    perhaps where you live...
    Here a flatrate has leagally to be a flatrate, so nobody can complain if you use full bandwith 24/7

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  2. Re:australia has quite a backward internet model by gl4ss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sorry but that is both expensive and slow.

    great for the isp's that australia has been conditioned to think that crap service is great, eh?

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  3. Re:Why is this news!?! by operagost · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And here I thought the French were only good at surrendering.

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