FTC shutters "rogue" Northern California ISP

In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has disconnected a web-hosting provider it says served as a hub for illegal activities ranging from child pornography to the distribution of fake antivirus products. Among other things, customers operating within the network were also identified as running botnet control servers of some of the largest botnets around.

FTC filed a petition to disconnect Triple Fiber Network (3FN.net), and which was approved by a Northern California district court judge.  As a result, upstream providers stopped routing traffic for 3FN.net early this week, leaving the more than 15,000 websites on 3FN.net disconnected from the Internet. 

According to the FTC, "Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content..."  Good riddance to it all--this can only be a net gain for the Internet community at large. Well, until the customers shift to another location on the Net, that is.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at the Washington Post

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