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Ed Price wrote:
"Robert Bonomi" bonomi@c-ns. wrote in message link.net... In article YEcdb.2567$La.801@fed1read02, Ed Price wrote: Exactly!! My company subscribes to a service like that; they get daily updates for their filter software just like they get updates for their AV file. At work, I am getting ZERO Swens. But at home, that's completely different. I have a cable connection through Cox, and I'm getting 75 to 100 Swens per day. (The first couple of days, I had over a hundred per day.) Sure, there's a few variations, but the 106 kB attachment is a real obvious sign. Evidently, Cox doesn't care, and doesn't filter at all. I don't leave my machine run 24/7, so the Swen IS a problem for me. Since Cox only allows a 10 MB mailbox, about 90 Swens fills it. Then, Cox graciously starts bouncing ALL my emails, since my box is now full. In effect, an email DOS fringe benefit for the Swen. My question is, why can't Cox afford a filter system for incoming email? And my next question is why don't all reputable ISP's have a filter on outgoing email? There's still a whole lot of the clueless who are yet to be infected, and Swen attachments will be flowing for quite a while to come. The answer to _any_ question that starts off "why don't they..." is *always* "money". How much more are _you_ willing to pay for your Internet access to cover scanning of _your_ outgoing mail for viruses? How much more are you willing to pay for virus-scanning of your incoming mail? The commercial filtering services get $3-5 per mailbox, per month, in 'whole- sale' quantities. And even the best of 'em don't catch everything. Since I'm already paying $40 per month for broadband access, would I pay an additional $5 for a fast reacting spam & virus & worm filter? Yes. And remember, a filter would work both ways. incoming & outgoing. Much of the problem is caused by clueless broadband users whose machines are taken over and used to propagate the attacks. An ISP should have the duty to suppress these sources of contagion. OTOH, how much would the ISP save in storage resources, system overhead, overloaded customer service reps? And what would be the market value in being able to claim a reasonably "protected" ISP service? Further, if a company has maybe 5000 mailboxes, might not an ISP with 250,000 mailboxes be able to talk a better deal? Ed WB6WSN At that volume they should implement it themselves, and just subscribe to the update services. -- Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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