Road Runner to bundle personal firewalls to ADSL customers

13 Jan 2004

c|net brings news that Road Runner is bundling CA's antivirus and firewall with new signups, this is good news as I discovered in recent analysis that they are the 3rd largest generator of spam, hopefully much of this spam comes from drone machines.

However them only targeting ADSL customers would not solve the problem for the rest of us since as I found in my analysis even if I filter out all their dynamic allocated IP's - their ADSL customers - they simply move up to largest sender of spam for my system, which means they have some rather dodgy corporate customers as well.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 at 4:42 PM

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