Re: A question for the group

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.

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.



I differ with your calls. I want to control just how much and exactly what
filtering they do, failing this i minimize what they do. My current bottom
line, some spam, some infected traffic gets in; very little legitimate
traffic gets blocked. Best of all my ISP implements learning algorithms to
see what i "rescue" and what i manually bounce: i make about two passes a
month manually. Of course a really good implementation would allow me to
use a SMTP client (suitable to a proper workstation) rather that a lowly
POP client (suitable to a thin terminal).

Make no mistake, the market is for foolish users on thin clients rather than
low grade admin class clients on workstations. The issue is not
computational power but the home computer administrators capabilities, they
just want it to work.
Just the same i want to make IP's and ISP's common carriers; nearly like the
way telephone is supposed to be. Net Neutrality is a Good Thing.

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JosephKK
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