Major Aussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 12, 2005 @08:03PM 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.

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Re:Why is this news!?! by NoMercy · 2005-04-12 20:50 · Score: -1, Troll

Slashdot, news for nerds, stuff which matters.
News for morons, stuff which no one gives a damn about.
Major Wussie ISP Disconnecting Trojaned PCs by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-12 21:47 · Score: -1, Troll

bunch of wussies
Re:Why is this news!?! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-12 23:23 · Score: -1, Troll

Its news because aussie ISPs are facist nazis. They are lazy as fuck, dont give a shit about spam and they only do something when its there network under attack. They have the "fuck you" attitude