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Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers
davidmcg writes "BBC.co.uk reports that UK cable firm Telewest has had almost one million email address blacklisted by an anti-spam firm. The Spam Prevention Early Warning System blacklisted the email addresses because a large number of the machines using them have been hijacked by spammers. Telewest have stated that they knew about the problem and have been working with customers to regain control of their machines."
"Telewest blamed recent virus outbreaks for the sudden rise in the number of hijacked home PCs. "We are currently contacting affected customers to help them clean their PCs which, as you can imagine, is a time-consuming task," it said."
I sympathise with them, I've tried banging my head against the wall before and it's not fun!
Spam is a huge problem and any ISP may obviously be subject to blacklisting due to infected machines,Telewest is probably no worse than any other. What I find interesting, though, is that the article states they think 16,000 machines are infected. And the slashdot article claims "have been working with customers to regain control of their machines.". Good luck, I am glad it's not me who's job it is to call all those 16.000 users... (my humble, unimportant opinion is that the users themselves should be responsible for making sure their computers are safe, but .. I'm not important)
9/11: Never forget it was a false-flag operation
You appear to have mis-spelled "dollars an hour" as "figures".
haha, you wasted years of you're life, while I'm earning seven figures sys-adminning.
Pesos don't count.
the average slashdotter is to smart to attend
Are you an average slashdotter?
Just sit back and enjoy it, you fool!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.