Re: A question for the group

In article <44ab6d79$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Brown <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
A real firewall/router will cost about $30, and do a vastly better job
of protecting your network or PC from trojans and other nasties.

They don't protect you from trojans. Trojans are named after that Greek
horse that the idiots in Troy downloaded to inside their firewall.

And
your ISP should be able to virus-scan your emails for you - again,

I want my ISP to keep its hands off my e-mails. We really don't want the
status of ISPs to be changed. Today, very like the phone company, they
are not responsible for what is said over their system. I want ISPs to
keep this protection.

they
will (should!) do a better job than a home system.

As far as I know, there are no viruses for Apples. I think that this is
in part because they are very well defended. The problem with the PC is
that its software has a history that extends back to when "everything can
be trusted". Microsoft has to make the new stuff work with the old
software but somehow also make it protected against malware. This isn't
an easy task even if it is given higher priority that animating that
stupid paperclip.


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