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Originally Posted by BBKing
In defence of the people who came up with the system, I know them well and they're *very* smart - try defining how you'd identify who has a virus or not - it's not a 100% game by any stretch, and you eventually have to err on the side of caution and block people. It has been very effective in stopping viruses and other ISPs have been interested in the technique, so this is NTL being proactive and intelligent, OK? Given that the UK leads the world in PC trojan infection I think any effort to stop it has to be worthy of applause.
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Worth noting too that they worked with MS, Symantec and other parties to come up with this system, and I also heard that other ISP's approached ntl about this.
Your always going to have false positives, but better a few mistakes than a whole network block due to virus propagation.