Solve : Comcast Tries Pop-Up Alerts to Warn of Infections?

1.	Solve : Comcast Tries Pop-Up Alerts to Warn of Infections?
Answer» Comcast CORP. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers -- the armies of infected personal computers, known as ''botnets,'' that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime. The country's largest provider of high-speed Internet to homes started testing a service this week in Denver in which Comcast sends customers a pop-up message in their Web browsers if their computers seem to have been co-opted by a botnet. One botnet can have tens of thousands or even millions of PCs. LinkNow they have something they can blame their throttled down speed on... "My connection speed is ATROCIOUS".... "Oh that Sir....that's our new super duper botnet sniffer working in the BACKGROUND....perfectly normal".....And you know some spammer or hacker is going to take advantage of this and create their own popups saying I'm from Comcast, click here to protect your self.It's a never ending struggle...but you're probably RIGHT on.

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