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Comcast to Warn PC Users If They’re Infected

Posted by Russ Ray on November 2, 2009

If Comcast is your ISP, it appears that they will start monitoring accounts to make sure you’re not part of a botnet, a network of computers that launch spam, denial of service and malware attacks on other computers without a user’s knowledge. Sometimes it is also called a zombie computer… this is the same type of infection that drove the Conficker scare earlier this year.

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