Quarantine Unsafe Users?
Spam, viruses, spyware, and other malware are rampant on the Internet.
There are servers dedicated to spewing this trash all over the world.
Governments and ISPs are constantly pursuing and shutting down gangs of
cybercriminals who operate them. But for every online crook, there are
thousands of unwitting accomplices.
Millions of computers online are infected with self-replicating viruses.
The malware attaches copies of itself to all emails sent out from an
infected machine. Botnets - networks of infected computers controlled
surreptitiously by a criminal enterprise - launch spam,
denial-of-service attacks, and more havoc without the computer owners'
knowledge.
But shouldn't you know that your computer is infected and poses a hazard
to everyone else on the Internet? Don't you have a responsibility to
keep your computer reasonably secure from infection? Should your
Internet access be cut off if you are found to be communicating through
an unsafe computer? Some people say "yes."
Read more:
http://askbobrankin.com/should_unsaf...#ixzz1NaKiSOTm
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