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Originally Posted by kennyc
Missed the PilotBob comment earlier....that's kinda what I thought as well - frying pan into fire - but this is the free version supplied by Comcast so I've gone along for now. It's already popped up several annoying notices and added tool bars to my Outlook and browsers! as well as sticking it's nose in on my email scanner I've been using for a couple of years and is working fine....
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My ISP offers something like that (I'd have to look to see what, possibly Norton) but I passed. I understand their motive, as viruses/trojans/malware are pervasive problems. I was part of a discussion elsewhere where a poster thought the ISPs should be sat on hard for letting the stuff be distributed on their network, and contented myself with posting a little background on how the internet worked and querying how he thought what he wanted was
possible.
ISPs toss packets, and all the routing servers look at is packet headers to see where it's coming from and where it's going. Blocking things like viruses and malware would require inspecting the
content of the packets, which opens a can of worms no one in their right mind wants to contemplate. (And would have an enormous performance impact i9f it was done.)
Personally, I don't
want my ISP to take extreme measures. Setting the wards on my machine and keeping out things like viruses and malware is
my problem, and I'll select my own methods to do so.
Good luck with Norton. I wouldn't use it, but many people do successfully. Maybe you'll be lucky.
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Dennis