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Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of infections – PhysOrg

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(AP) — Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers – the armies of infected personal computers, known as “botnets,” that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime. The …

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Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of infections – San Francisco Chronicle

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The country’s largest provider of high-speed Internet to homes started testing a service this week in Denver in which Comcast sends customers a pop-up message in their Web browsers if their computers seem to have been co-opted by a botnet. One botnet …

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