For instance, a significant overnight spike in traffic being sent from a particular Internet Protocol address could signal that a computer is infected with a virus taking control of the system and using it to send spam as part of a botnet.
The alerts are triggered "when we see computers on our network that are doing things that are known bot activities--say, a computer is spewing out thousands of spam e-mails," said Jay Opperman, senior director of security and privacy at Comcast.
Comcast to warn infected users with pop-up
Posted on Friday, October 09 2009 @ 21:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
CNET reports cable operator Comcast is trial testing an automated service that will warn broadband users of possible malware infections. The service will analyze spikes in traffic and will warn potentially infected users with a browser pop-up.