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What?!? Take a paying customer offline?!?
If they didn't have a provision in their TOS agreement about this, then they could be sued for dumping a customer offline for this reason. While more and more ISP's are adding such provisions, not all of them have it and they can't just kill a customer's connection because an infected system is detected.

I do agree that a good ISP should cut off infected systems and be proactive in blocking things like virus related ports, spam, and other nasties floating around the Internet. However, not all of them do. My experience is that cable providers are better at this than DSL providers but I'm sure it varies a lot.
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50,000 or 75,000 machines?  csk_1975 | 02/09/04
theres you answer  stephen732@... | 02/09/04
Amen  tmoe | 02/10/04
Wonder what the second one does...  doe_z | 02/09/04
you hope what!?  stephen732@... | 02/09/04
YES, destroy the pc  Valis Keogh | 02/10/04
than these idiot users need to...  stephen732@... | 02/10/04
these idiots dont look at tco  Valis Keogh | 02/10/04
Very nice.  billbutterusername | 03/18/04
Hope you didn't really mean that  IT_User | 02/09/04
Destructive payload - understandable  ejhonda | 02/10/04
car analogy  Valis Keogh | 02/10/04
You Need to Move On!!!  ddollinger | 02/12/04
Your the one who deserves to have your Hard drive wiped  CosmicChaos | 02/10/04
A better solution:  ryusen | 02/11/04
In reply to all  doe_z | 02/10/04
Wouldn't work  wolf_z | 02/10/04
Can't think of anything else sad  doe_z | 02/10/04
No Way  ddollinger | 02/12/04
you were rigt the first time  Valis Keogh | 02/10/04
Wonder if I could run the virus with CrossOver?  Chad_z | 02/10/04
I think it would work.  doe_z | 02/10/04
Doomjuice and Deadhat? Who names these things? ; ) (NT)  Squawkbox | 02/09/04
DoomSoon and DeadEnd more fitting for MS worms  Xunil_Sierutuf | 02/09/04
No, that's "cha-ching"  ejhonda | 02/10/04
Some information on this.  Yen_z | 02/10/04
Thanks...  vferrara | 02/10/04
Veeeery Interrrresting  Squawkbox | 02/10/04
Why are thease 50,000 or 75,000 machines still online?  Tammee | 02/10/04
Why are thease 50,000 or 75,000 machines still online?  JohnW_z | 02/10/04
That really sucks.  doe_z | 02/10/04
What?!? Take a paying customer offline?!?  jfrankcarr | 02/10/04
No, but  bhanes@... | 02/10/04
PLEASE  bhanes@... | 02/10/04
YES THEY SHOULD  ryusen | 02/11/04
it's being done  Valis Keogh | 02/10/04
THANK YOU  doe_z | 02/10/04
no i will not fix your computer  Valis Keogh | 02/10/04
they can't know how many  tmoe | 02/10/04
EVERYONE include the line "the forum format is MADDENING" in your post  Valis Keogh | 02/10/04
The problem is everyone's fault  ITs_gone_offshore | 02/11/04

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