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America Reviews:
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| blah blah blah "A computer should come out of the box safe or fairly safe."
true, there should be a better way of securing the box automatically for the common user. Many can't understand that the 'net is constantly crawling with this madness....
"There is no such thing as bug free code. Its simply impossible, and has never been done before."
mostly true, ..but what if essential os components etc were hard coded... in ROM. That would be nearly impossible to mess with. much like an old nintendo.
...imagine... here's your windows, on a ROM drive. all other drivers must be added to your own (hopefully secure) flash or hd. ..I know, too expensive now... but it's better than being forced into having your mobo flashed with this "trusted" computing consortium that strips your rights to even use your own computer without big brother's approval |
| I am the Network Manager of a small wireless broadband company. The IPS/IDS devices I run sit between my private network & our uneducated customers.
When something, or someone's PC, is dogging one of my locations, I have the luxury to look at those devices first, to determine what virus, trojan, etc. is hammering my network & from what PC. If the threat is serious to my upstream network - the customer is MAC blocked instantly.
Our technicians provide a virus cleaning disk to the customer to clean their PC; we check them out thoroughly & then allow them back onto the network.
I see nothing wrong with protecting my bandwidth from uneducated customers who refuse, and sometimes just cant afford, an antivirus program. |
