I am the System Admin of an ISP in Billings and will shut down access to infected machines also, although company policy dictates I give them a warning first. I usually give them until the end of the first day I give them notice. After that, CLICK, off it goes...

At 08:32 AM 5/17/2004, you wrote:
On 05/17/04 at 10:25, 'twas brillig and Joseph Brennan scrobe:
> --On Monday, May 17, 2004 10:14 AM -0400 "David F. Skoll"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Actually, there's a very large ISP in Canada (Sympatico) that shuts down
> > customers if it detects that they are sending out viruses.  You don't get
> > your connectivity back until you have proven your machine is clean.
>
>
> A large university in New York does the same thing!

        As does a large(ish) university in Massachusetts.


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