> My bet is that if you are using torrents or other services that compete with > Comcast business they will pepper you with notices to such as extent that you > won't be able to use the service. Effectively a DOS attack in sheep's > clothing.
So far, the folks at Comcast don't seem to have monitoring what a user does as a model. Comcast is instead relying on reports that the user's IP address seems to harbor a bot. I suggest the following link may back up my statement. I can't believe it, I'm actually defending Comcast. http://security.comcast.net/constantguard/ select among the FAQs, > How did Comcast determine that I may have a virus-bot on a computer in my home? It reads: > How did Comcast determine that I may have a virus-bot on a computer in my > home? > Print > > We identify infected computers in several ways. First, we get data from > reputable Internet research groups that specialize in bot identification. The > data we get includes a list of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that are > infected and those that belong to bot command and control channels. Second, > we look for malicious behavior exhibited by bots such as spam, distributed > denial of service attacks and repeated connections requests to known command > and control channels. We then aggregate this data to confirm whether one or > more of your computers has been infected. Thus Comcast doesn't seem to be monitoring your usage of torrents and the like. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
