Hi all,
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, WJCarpenter wrote:
>> Once in my practice I've met an ISP who blocked their client, and when
>> he contacted call-center he was told "Your account was suspended,
>> because your computer is heavily infected. Please clean it up, send us
>> a list of viruses you've identified there, and we will renew your
>> account".
>
> Comcast (big US cable ISP) does something like this. I experienced it
> firsthand when a house-guest had an infected laptop. Comcast applied
> filtering to outbound port 25. They then sent me an email explaining
> that they had detected spam from my location, suggested ways to check
> all my PCs for malware (Comcast also provides a free Norton security
> suite to all customers), and told me how I could get port 25 unblocked.
>
> I thought that was remarkably cool: proactive and fair.
It's a nice idea, but it doesn't seem to be working well for Comcast.
They made it onto my local blacklist a long time ago, in July 2008:
drop hosts = 75.144.0.0/13 : 70.88.0.0/13 : 173.8.0.0/13
message = Local blacklist of COMCAST
# spectrum uniforms spam, 080703
# 419 spam, RO, 090409
# chinese spam, US, 100913
# unreadable spam, US, 110112
And I've dropped 451 spams from them to a single IP in the last two years.
Cheers, Chris.
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