Zombie Report By ISP

twitter writes "Information Week has a summary of a report by Prolexic detailing Zombie activity by ISP, country and population statistics. AOL, the largest provider, had the most zombies but lower rates than others. Fourth largest Earthlink was not in the top 20. The information is gathered from hundreds of customer sites." From the article: "Weinstein went on to say that Prolexic's numbers were actually good news for AOL. 'It's a demonstration that the tools we provide are keeping members safe. Our very aggressive actions -- we provide anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall services to our users -- make them measurably safer than those on other ISPs.'"

Comments

Re:Turn turn turn ...

[dmolavi]

bzzt..AOL For Broadband

The other thing about AOL

[everphilski]

The other thing about AOL's dialup service is that they buy modems from local ISP's in areas where they don't operate central hubs. I used to work for one such ISP that contracted to AOL. We were very proactive about protecting customers, etc.

So a lot of the AOL crowd having good numbers may very well be local ISP's that are taking good care of their own customers, and just happen to contract out to AOL on the side

-everphilski-

Re:Umm...

[khendron]

Here you go

The Prolexic Zombie Report

This is how it starts...

[suitepotato]

...and this is how it ends up.

Although, there are some AOL users I wouldn't mind being gobbled up, I hardly need to sit on my roof with a minigun and grenade launcher.

For the love of G-d, we must do something now!

Report.

[saintlupus]

The actual report is at:

http://www.prolexic.com/zr/

--saint

Re:Article is incorrect

[porcupine8]

I think it's (percent of all attacks originating from that provider) divided by (number of machines on that provider, in millions).

So (making #s up) if AOL is 10% of all attacks, and 100 million machines, they have .1 percent per million. But if Joe's ISP has 5% of all attacks, and only 5 million machines, they have 1.0 percent per million.

AOL has twice as many attacks total, but compared to their user base Joe's rate is ten times as high.

Earthlink *is* 17th...

[brockbr]

The blurb says Earthlink is not in the top 20. Mindspring, listed as 17th most infected, is Earthlink.

AOL's ISP is ATDN

[jfengel]

Actually, AOL's "ISP" is AOL Transit Data Network (ATDN), a related company. They're a "tier 1" provider, and they communicate directly with other tier 1 providers: AT&T, MCI, Level(3), Verio, GBLX, C&W, Verizon, etc. They're the guys who own the big continent- and ocean-spanning fiber optic networks.

"ISP" usually refers to something more customer-facing than the tier 1 providers.

Earthlink has broadband services

[Andy Dodd]

Just like AOL, Earthlink has been making a huge push into broadband services.

Remember, traditional AOL service is dialup too? No difference between Earthlink and AOL in this respect. Both are dialup providers that have begun a push into broadband service, and in Earthlink's case, even mobile phone service. (Earthlink is an MVNO that resells Verizon and Sprint service.)