Re: A question for the group

kensmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ken Smith) wrote:

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.

Funny, today I made a forecast on another forum that ISPs may become
more than just a telco and also offer protection to their customers
given the importance of internet nowadays. Not that I want this to
happen, but there are already signs that governments want to regulate
internet in order to protect their citizens.

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

This is not quite true. The Apple OS is as vulnerable as any OS to
trojan horses and other malware. Don't even think 'user mode' is going
to help you (this is a very, very false assumption).

Clever criminals want to make money with your computer. They don't
need root or administrator privileges to do so. All they need is a
user with enough rights to download and run a program (even if it sits
inside a corrupted JPG, PDF document, activeX control, executable,
etc, etc) on a computer.

Regardless the OS, you'll need a virus scanner and a malware detector.

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