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Re: Complain against comcast



 On Jan 19, 2008 9:33 AM, Tom Metro <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> I'd guess that there has been a fraction of a percent of Comcast cable 
> modem users who have chosen to intentionally send spam. The rest are 
> people with poorly maintained computers that have been taken over by 
> zombies. That problem is easily addressed by blocking outbound port 25 
> by default, but permit it to be unblocked upon request. A user who knows 
> enough to ask for it to be unblocked is fairly unlikely to be hosting 
> zombies. 

The STORM worm/zombie-net has been causing a lot of havoc as of late. 
It is highly probable that this is the reason Comcast is filtering... 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"Know something about everything and everything about something." 

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