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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.'"
Now, perhaps we can start putting some pressure on the bad ISPs to clean up their networks on the basis of their successful peers.
I'm really sick of everyone in the world looking down on me as soon as they find that my IP is on a Comcast block.
End users just *don't care*. This is why there are botnets. Because, although their owned boxen are f-ing with the rest of the internet, it doesn't affect them - a selfish luser attitude, why should they bother virus/trojan scanning their boxen?
I wish ISPs (victims and hosting) would hold the lusers responsible for this - I think criminal negligence would be an appropriate charge. I for one look after my gentoo linux boxen and keep them patched.
That's just not true. When I moved, I used a free AOL CD just for dial-up, but I never used the email address. When I closed the acct a few months later, I only had 5 emails in the inbox.