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to: Robert Sayre
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2003-03-02 20:18:00
subject: Re: PnP Monitor?

-=> ROBERT SAYRE 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.

 RS>  Why PROM's?

 WC> Simple speed not requiring much processing power.

 RS>  Why not just HD space? Memory resident?

Good idea but PROM's are more difficult to hack into, Impossible if
UV EPROM or one time PROM, possible if EEPROM though difficult.
 
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