My friend Richi Jennings is fond of the idea that users with malware-infected PCs should be cut off from the Internet. To this, I say not just “Yes,” but “Hell yes.” And, as he pointed out, other people are getting behind this idea of helping to clean up the litter of spam, malware, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that junks up the Internet highway.
Comcast, as Jennings pointed out, will be letting imalware-nfected users know that they’ve got garbage on their hard disk, but not keeping them off the net. Darn it.