Sunday, June 13, 2004
Got a business account with your ISP? Ask about their worm policy
Suppose your computer gets infected. The bad program's first concern will be sending out copies of itself, and after that it will typically be used to send out spam. This can cause enormous amounts of traffic from your computer.
Will you get stuck with the bill for all that usage? Not everybody has an all-you-can-eat account, and not every ISP will forgive the bill.
An unnamed ISP handed Ontario businessman Isaac Liber a bill for CDN$85,000 to pay for what a worm did from Liber's machine. He's now bankrupt.
If you get billed for bandwidth it's a good idea to call your ISP and ask what they'll do if your machine gets infected and uses too much bandwidth.
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Will you get stuck with the bill for all that usage? Not everybody has an all-you-can-eat account, and not every ISP will forgive the bill.
An unnamed ISP handed Ontario businessman Isaac Liber a bill for CDN$85,000 to pay for what a worm did from Liber's machine. He's now bankrupt.
If you get billed for bandwidth it's a good idea to call your ISP and ask what they'll do if your machine gets infected and uses too much bandwidth.
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