I use Comcast, and really have no complaints, although I have heard other people say the service is less than adequate. I found this article about Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of botnets. This new service for Comcast users is being tested here in Denver. In another article from SearchSecurity, there is interesting information about the new generation of botnets that are tinier, stealthier and can contain thousands (87K in one example) of variants of malware.
I'm glad to see Comcast responding actively to this issue.
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Comcast allegedly is very strict about people running servers of any type from a residential account. I would think their monitoring would at least catch bots that are spamming. I wonder what sort of traffic scanning they are doing to detect "bot" behavior. One of the problems we ran into while I was at Vericept was that even trivial encryption makes the scanning problem extremely difficult.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Dave