Steve Jones - Editor (12/5/2007)
The problem we had in the US is that a lot of ISPs put up a modem, but not a router. They were trying to charge a fee for every machine, not the connection. It hasn't worked terribly well and I'm surprised if anyone doesn't require a router these days.Not stopping virus traffic is a problem. I think it becomes hard to tell sometimes what's legitimate and what's not, but they should be able to figure it out more often than not. At least they could be working with SANS or someone else to identify virus/bot/other traffic and shut it down.
When I signed up for Qwest's DSL, I got a wireless router from them. It is unfortunately mediocre quality, so I hooked up a Linksys wireless router on top of it. 🙂 The combo seems to work well. I'm planning on eventually buying an Apple Airport base station, but not any time soon.
I've never understood why ISPs won't monitor their traffic for zombies. I would give odds that the public reason is "we don't have the bodies to do the monitoring" whereas the real reason is they don't want to lose the $20-50 a month a zomibied customer represents. Obviously they don't care what the security costs are for the rest of the world, or, for that matter, the rest of their customers!
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