IanKelley - 9:13 pm on Mar 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

You might say that MSIE itself is the infection, it being the primary cause of so much PC sickness. Similar to an autoimmune virus...

The quarantine idea makes a lot of sense but there are some issues...

First, less than scrupulous ISPs (read Comcast) could use it as a way around neutrality.

Given their track record they would almost definitely flag file sharers and other users who they felt were using too much bandwidth as "infected".

Second, the extra packet sniffing could raise ISP's costs significantly and privacy advocates are never going to like the idea of individual packet inspection and the logging that tends to go along with it.