-=> 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.

 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
 WC> and satellites from all the malicious traffic generated by trojans
 WC> with 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.

 RS>  Why PROM's?

Simple speed not requiring much processing power.
 
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