On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie > > operation and starts sending spam from these zombie machines, it > > increases the net amount of bandwidth the user uses, resulting in higher > > internet bills, and hence more income for the ISP. So shutting down the > > zombie computers will infact result in reduction of revenues for ISPs. > > Are you assuming that the zombied machines are also the ISP's customers? > > Celejar
I am not sure I understood your question completely. Say I buy internet service from ISP X which charges $Y per GB of traffic used. Say my machine has been hacked and is sending spam. Now I have to pay more money to the ISP since I will be using more bandwidth than I otherwise would have. In this case, I (the ISP customer) own the 'zombied' machine. Does that answer your question? raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
