Time4aNAP
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join:2007-04-09
Des Plaines, IL
| It's Your Choice This snippet from the eWeek article spoke volumes:
"There are ISPs that try to do the right thing. My other ISP (yes, I have two at the moment, long story) is Speakeasy.net. When Speakeasy finds out about users performing bot-like activity, it contacts them and tells them about it. A simple, yet considerate thing to do. Speakeasy may have a relatively sophisticated audience that can handle such contact better than most, but at least it tries. It says it will eventually shut people down, although it tries to address the situation short of that."
My other ISP (yes, I have three at the moment, not counting the colos. Not a long story--I'm doing at home what the major ISPs do at peering facilities.), Speakeasy, sent me an e-mail notification, followed up by a phone call from a rep, who took the time to pinpoint the source of the offending traffic. The source was a client's machine that I was disinfecting. In the minute or so that it took from boot-up to after I had killed all of the offensive processes, Speakeasy was all over the case.
From my POV, the brief period that I had allowed the malware to operate on my network not only gave me valuable troubleshooting information from my firewall, but it was a drop in the bucket compared to the years that this machine had been running 24x7 on AT&T's SBC/Yahoo! DSL network. But Speakeasy's lightning response was a great reassurance that their unfettered Internet access wasn't making them a haven for spambots.
Score another one for Speakeasy! |
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