Content Filtering

Let's face it, the only way we're going to eradicate this kind of attack is for a sea change to happen with the ISP's who provide home broadband to enable content filtering the way that many corporates do now. Many of the upper tier ISP's are starting to bring this option in, but it's still optional (plusnet / bt / orange et. al).

Having it turned on by default for all users will kill phishing and spyware attacks overnight.

Especially if they filter outbound known port activity from machines, won't that kill the botnets too?

I feel that the responsibility is now with the ISP's who have been transparent before. I know it's all not what we wanted as those of us who have used the internet since the year dot are still all for net neutrality (and I'm sure it can be set up so that those of us techies who want unfiltered connections can do so). However, the net isn't the same animal it was when we first used it. The world has changed and our attitude needs to change too.

The bottom line is that there is a huge raft of people out there who just want to rip us off and get the money our of our pockets and into theirs by any means.