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Re: Get tougher on botnet controlled customer PCs
This would be OK as long as the customer could opt out of the services and do his own cleanup. The ISP's only legitimate concern is what they can detect on the network; inspecting the customer's PC is going too far.
If the customer was required to use a commercial service, the potential for abuse would be too great. Getting on the ISP's approved-service list would become a kind of franchise and the requirement of using an approved service would create an incentive for scams (loosen the criteria for blacklisting, allow no appeals, collect dollars). The anti-virus vendors might get in on it too and then it would become a forced-purchase scheme. In addition there would be a gross violation of privacy, security and civil liberties in forcing customers to give root access to their PCs to some third party in order to get online.
The self-cleanup option would avoid all these problems. Customers could use commercial services if they prefer, or have friends fix their PCs, or learn something about it themselves.
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