[Scspamcop] Re: Kudos again to zombie-slaying Sky.com

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"Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> John Malmberg wrote:
> [interesting stuff snipped]
>> So a commercial ISP really has no excuse to allow a zombied machine to 
>> remain accessible more than a few minutes after they receive an abuse 
>> report, or for more than an hour after it shows up on a popular public 
>> DNSbl.
>
> Agreed. I got the "kill report" within 4-5 days of the SC report. CBL 
> showed the IP detected 1.5 days ago I think, so I suspect that Sky let it 
> go for more than 3 days. You're dead-on about ISPs having a financial 
> interest in pro-actively hunting zombies.
>
> Still, I wonder what the average "kill time" is. Sky must be on the better 
> end of the spectrum?

Outside of corporate networks, I personally haven't heard of infectees 
being, in anyway, shut down, notified, or otherwise bothered by being a 
zombie other than the hassle factor of multiple infections popping up ads 
and generally making the computer a total pain to use.