Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

-=> TOM WALKER wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 -> Why don't  ISP's burn anti-virus and worm software into a PROM
 -> and screen traffic for this malicious code?
 -> For the price they charge you'd think they could offer
 -> a clean product.

 TW>  Becasue they would to have to almost Re-Burn the PROM's Every DAY!!!

 WC> They do lots of things every day and an automated burn of
 WC> an EPROM hardly seems too much trouble.
 WC> AAMOF I would think it would lessen the burden on their lines and
 WC> satellites from all the malicious traffic generated by trojans with
 WC> their own SMTP that read ones address book.
 WC> I thought I got hit recently due to the enormous amount
 WC> of malicious attachments on my mail but it turned out
 WC> someone with my name in their address book had been infected.  

Things can't keep going on as they have been with regard to this stuff...

I went to bed fairly early last night,  but turned the tv on for a bit to
try and catch a weather report,  and one of the items I did catch was a bit
where this network's news was talking about how much of that sort of thing,
 and spam,  was going on.  Had somebody from AOL talking about how it's
their "number one enemy" among other things.

I expect that legislation is one of the things we can look forward to in
the near future...

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