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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.
Nice work linking to a table that completely refutes your claim.
If Comcast redirected for my FTP upload of client data scheduled during the 1 hour downtime that we have worked 3 weeks to schedule... I'd sue for damages. Plain and simple.
I work from home. I am a contractor. I upload large amounts of data all at once, and do it late at night because the network uploads crawl during the afternoon and early evening. I'm trying to be conscientious to my neighbors who use Comcast by not overloading the upload bandwidth on our block during normal hours (as well as be efficient by avoiding sitting around waiting for files to upload), and Comcast decides to throttle or redirect my traffic because it was running at 1 AM and caused a large spike in traffic?
Trust me, I'd most definitely sue, and if I have a competent lawyer that can prove actual damages, I will win and hit them for all they are worth.
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Not quick to sue, but ready to when my client sues me. I have a family to feed, and have to protect myself.
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