> From: "Karen D. Oland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:07:51 -0400 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: AOL's got nerve > >> From: Joshua Levitsky >> >> So what you are saying is that since we only catch 40% of the viruses that >> way and another 60% come from companies then why bother with the 40%? > > Why not filter them all with a better anti-virus program? > > Blocking all home users really has no net effect on a problem like viruses > (esp if 60% of your propagated viruses are from companies).
60% I pulled out of my ass as an example. It was just because it was said that the majority is companies. Better antivirus? Umm... Someone has to be the first to get a virus for there to be a signature for it. How quickly do you think a mass mailer can spead among our users if we didn't block the ipt.aol.com addresses from emailing AOL addresses? It's not a matter of better antivirus. The fact is with 30 million customers we are almost always the first ones hit with these nasty viruses. It's just a numbers thing. You are lucky that maybe only 3000 people on the planet have your email address in their address book. Imagine 30 million customers that each have only 10 friends on the whole earth. Do the math. -josh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
