[AusNOG] Killing the bots with user help. WAS Re: NBN must avoid becoming 'failed state'

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Terry Manderson wrote:

> Interesting idea. Doesn't completely wall the user off, but makes it reasonably clear that they are affected/infected.

Qwest have been doing the same thing for years, as well.  They both do a 'leaky quarantine' which redirects Web traffic to the 'You're pwn3d' portal, whilst allowing other traffic (like VoIP, for example) to pass normally.

Here's the page which describes Qwest's service:

<http://news.qwest.com/index.php?s=43&item=305>

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