[LINK] Fwd: MR41-05: Australian zombie-hunting program launched

[Danny Yee]

rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
> 2) I can just imagine how someone getting an e-mail saying "Your 
> computer may be infected by a Zombie" is really going to change the world...
> 
> The best I can find out is that the ACMA is going to distribute lists of 
> compromised IP addresses to ISPs and let them deal with the customer. 
> But here, the scepticism button cuts in: I regularly get "your computer 
> is infected" messages spoofing various ISPs, not all of them my own. And 
> in case someone responds "yes but you run Windows", I also get them to a 
> different account that's the office Mac running OSX.
 
But an ISP has some extra options here.  They could cut off user
access and redirect all attempts at web access to a page with
information about how the user machine is compromised and how
to fix it.  I'm guessing that would get most people's attention.
(Though of course the user may need web access to fix the problem,
so my suggestion is obviously too drastic.)

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