said by smith_in_co:So In trying to be a 'good' net citizen what can I do to eliminate the bot?
Assuming the bot is not a false positive to begin with.
I don't know about it being a false positive (but that has happened with Comcast's detection of the "DNS Changer" malware).
One possibility is that you may have actually already eliminated the bot (assuming that there is/was a bot). The »
amibotted.comcast.net/ site does not do any kind of fresh scan when you visit it, it only reports that Comcast has at some point in time detected what it considers to be bot activity on the IP address from which you are accessing that site. Perhaps jlivingood
or some other Comcast representative who is familiar with how their ConstantGuard scanner works can provide some insight about how long a delay there is before the »
amibotted.comcast.net/ site will not report previously detected bot activity. Hopefully it is not like a sexual predator database where you will be in it forever.
Assuming that you are using a router, you might try cloning the MAC address from a PC into the router's WAN interface, and then rebooting both the cable modem (some EMTA modems may require that you remove the battery and/or press a special reset button) and the router. That should get Comcast's DHCP server to assign you a different public IP address, and you can then see if new bot activity is discovered on your new IP address.
