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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Petri Helenius wrote: > >> After all these years, I'm still surprised a consortium of ISP's haven't > >> figured out a way to do something a-la Packet Fence for their clients where > >> - whenever an infected machine is detected after logging in, that machine > >> is thrown into say a VLAN with instructions on how to clean their machines > >> before they're allowed to go further and stay online. > > This has been commercially available for quite some time so it would be only > > up to the providers to implement it. > > Public ISPs have been testing these types of systems for over 5 years. > What sorts of differences can you think of that would explain why public > ISPs have found them not very effective? > > Public ISPs have been using walled gardens for a long time for user > registration and collecting credit card information. So they know how to > implement walled gardens. But what happens when public ISPs use it for > infected machines? > Many already do, successfully. When I say many I actually mean I know of 6. 3 of them huge, 3 of them relatively small.
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