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

[Adam Todd]

>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.

Wouldn't that contravene the Telecommunication Act - Intercepting and 
interfering with a communication?

Perhaps Deceptive practices - well the user did request a specific page and 
someone served them up a deceptive one!

>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.)

<rofl>  Links on the page to solutions - make more work for the ISP!