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Monday March 2, 2004

Combating virus and worm attacks is costing internet service providers around the world millions of dollars, with the figure rising every year as broadband is more widely adopted.

According to network equipment provider Sandvine, ISPs are shouldering a massive burden in order to minimise these attacks on residential subscribers.

Yesterday home users were blamed by antivirus company MessageLabs for being the most vulnerable to attacks because of poor security on home PCs.

"While every sector has been impacted in the past year, it is no surprise to see that those worst hit by both viruses and spam have high levels of interaction with home users," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs, in a statement.

Sandvine added that on any given day up to 12 per cent of all internet traffic across service provider networks is malicious, with denial of service attacks now an everyday event for ISPs.

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Source: vnunet.com by Dinah Greek

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