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Story: Botnet malware proliferates on Windows PCs

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Posted by: Steve B (Wednesday 25 October 2006, 10:46 AM)

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I do my bit by reporting the more active addresses to the relevant ISP to allow them to notify the PC owner that they are infected. US ISPs are 50/50 with some instantly acting but others ignoring it until threatened.
UK ISPs in general hide their heads and do nothing. The Russians are quite effective with responses indicating they have "terminated" the user. But until all the ISPs take some responsibility for tracking down and notifying the owners of the infections on their networks we have no other way of notifying them and so will have this problem for many years to come. this has to satrt at the top with the RIPE, ARIN etc taking responsibility for ensuring the contact details are correct, and there should be a way of blocking the addresses until the contact details are verified.

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