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Story: Supporting the support

Posted by: Richard Pettigrew (Tuesday 21 March 2006, 6:21 PM)

In the past I have emailed ISP's at their abuse email address and reported similar events, they rarely get answered and problem is rarely dealt with.

It is a disgrace that some ISP's appear to be ignoring the problem.

As you are all aware most unwanted traffic on the Internet as a whole is UCE (unsolicited Commercial Email /SPAM), but I have discovered that there is an awfull lot of extraneous traffic being generated by Windows PC's on home Broadband connections. The majority of this unncessary traffic if due to the "Client for Microsoft Networks" being allowed to be sent from these PC's.

Home users need educated (perhaps the Channel 5 Gadget Show can help???) to switch this off if they don't need it on.

Surely ISP's must have noticed this??? It's got to be costing them money in terms of wasted data being sent over very expensive connections!

They need to be actively advising their subscribers. The ISP's have their subscribers details - for peat sake guys email them and tell them. Otherwise the ISP's should be phoning them and telling them.