Australia looking to block infected computers

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On the wake of their internet filter nonsense they are now working on this.

At first glance it seems to be a good ideal, but when one starts to look at the how to implement I can see some problems.
- They will have to run some kind of program on your computer to test it.
- What will the program actually check for.
- Who controls what the program checks for.
- Can the program be hacked.
- What stops the government from slipping some monitoring into the program

On their censor list, It didn't take long to find out that they had more sites banned than what they indicated.

Would you actually trust a government to run their programs on your computer.

Computers with viruses could lose their internet access
A new industry code that has been designed to control and prevent the spread of PC contamination throughout Australia could see any computer infected with a virus being refused access to the internet.

It has been reported that an operate-or-legislate ultimatum to identify computer systems that have become “zombie” computers and are being used for cyber-crime has been issued to the internet industry by the Federal Government.
http://www.broadbandexpert.com.au/br...t-access/77857