Comcast's War On Infected PCs (Or All Customers)

thadmiller writes "Comcast is launching a trial on Thursday of a new automated service that will warn broadband customers of possible virus infections if the computers are behaving as if they have been compromised by malware. For instance, a significant overnight spike in traffic being sent from a particular Internet Protocol address could signal that a computer is infected with a virus, taking control of the system and using it to send spam as part of a botnet." Update: Jason Livingood of Comcast's Internet Systems Engineering group sent to Dave Farber's "Interesting People" mailing list a more detailed explanation of what this trial will involve.

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Nice try.

[WiiVault]

Pardon me if I assume that everything Comcast does is anti-consumer unless proven otherwise. Their record certainly reinforces this skepticism. Sounds to me like they are trying yet again to scare people who torrent or use P2P oftware. Of course since they "can't" throttle, they are coming up with new ways to encourage their paying customers to use less of their "unlimited" bandwidth. Thanks for loking out for us Comcast.