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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam "Zombies"
I think this has direct operational relevance--it will be interesting to see if this "campaign" has any direct impact of the spam zombie/botnet problem -- especially when even temporarily "disconnecting" customer computers is a revenue impacting activity (even if it does violate AUP's). :-) I guess we'll see.... Excerpt from Reuters article: [snip] "Home computer users who unwittingly send out spam e-mail should be disconnected from the Internet until their machines are fixed, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. "The FTC said it would ask 3,000 Internet providers around the globe to make sure that their customers' computers haven't been hijacked by spammers who want to cover their tracks and pass bandwidth costs on to others." [snip] Article on Reuters: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-05-24T194826Z_01_N24452932_RTRIDST_0_NET-TECH-SPAM-DC.XML FTC announcement: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/05/zombies.htm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [email protected] or [email protected] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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