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Originally Posted by techieMoe My ISP does this. If your computer is found to be infected with something that's detrimental to the network they block your access and make you call customer service to get it reactivated. The idea is (I guess) that the rep will make you run antivirus and remove the threat. I've not had any problems with the policy so far. | I wish more ISPs would do this. It *seems* like it would be in their interest to get rid of all the spam traffic that originates from their network, but I guess someone has done the sums and figured out that they'd lose more money from annoyed, security unconscious, customers migrating away than from cutting bandwidth costs 
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