Ron DuFresne wrote:
> Peoples, Why not just put pressure upon the anti-viri folks to create
> software that is supposed to deal with viral threats properly, and at the
> same time, devote more time to the never ending chore of user awareness.
> Those are the real issues here.
I don't know that that's true. The applications that a personal firewall
protects against aren't viruses at all, but trojans, like backorifice
for example, or a number of the .vbs hacks.
> Melding firewall software/Hardware to
> take on the added task of doing anti-viri stuff is not the route to go,
> nor is the definition of a new protocol.
I don't believe anyone was talking about doing that, exactly, except
perhaps yourself (accidentally.) The idea was that the antiviral
software handle the actual viruses, and that the "personal firewall"
should handle network trojans and suchlike.
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