AU Government To Pilot Target Zombies

msblack writes " Australian news sources are reporting that the communication regulators will begin notifying ISPs of infected customer computers. In a three-month pilot program, the Australian Communications & Media Authority will identify zombie computers and ask their owners to clean them or risk being disconnected. When will U.S. regulators and ISPs get on board?"

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[vasqzr]

In a three-month pilot program, the Australian Communications & Media Authority will identify zombie computers and ask their owners to clean them or risk being disconnected. When will U.S. regulators and ISPs get on board?

Our local cable and DSL providers are always shutting connections off for userse who's computers are virus-ridden. If your PC is acting as an open spam proxy or found to be connecting to zombie-networks, they shut you off, and you have to call to find out why. They recommend a service or software to help clean your PC, and they won't let you back on until you're free of any malware.

It's been like this for...years?

Re:No regulation for me.

[jacksonj04]

No, because despite business regulations (In the EU at least) for recycling machines, if the average home user doesn't know of someone who is likely to take old PCs then they will just be scrapped. This is bad, not only is it a waste of perfectly good hardware but it also adds heavy metals (in older machines) to the soil in higher concentrations than normal.

They already do in Canada, at least some ISPs

[alpha1125]

Specifically Roger highspeed cable internet provider. They have disconnect a few of my client's computers, due to being infected with some trojan/spyware/virus etc.

After my clients said on the phone, that "I will try and maintain a infected free computer , and run current antivirus software", they reconnect my clients.

I don't actually so mind that they disconnect people, if they are infected with some sort of virus. Saves the rest of the people from being infect.