Oz’s BigPond disconnects users
p2pnet.net News:- Australia`s largest ISP, Telstra BigPond, says it`s disconnecting Trojan-infected customer PCs which have caused a flood of malware on its servers.
It’s also thinking about prosecuting offenders, it says.
The volume of these requests has on occasion reached a level where some customers have reported slow responses to their legitimate requests for websites or email, its says in a statement published on Whirlpool, going on that it`s stepping up network monitoring to identify the sources of the infected PCs.
BigPond has boosted the capacity of the DNS systems and is developing engineering solutions, for a long-term answer.
It says it strongly recommends that customers don`t hard-code a DNS in their network settings, so that they can be directed to an alternative BigPond DNS in the event of further problems, adding:
Telstra Corporate Security also is assisting with a view to taking legal action against identified perpetrators.
(Thanks, Des)
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See:-
Whirlpool – DNS issue – BigPond statement, April 12, 2005
