Why don't ISP's Stop all Virus's ?!?

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Why don't ISP's Stop all Virus's ?!?

You gotta wonder why our Internet Service Providers don't scan email's and
other file uploads.
After all, they can buy the same Antivirus software we can !

So, instead we all have to pay for antivirus software and be burdened with
in many cases severly impeaded systems that operate at only a fraction of
the normal speed if
antivirus software isn't running.

If I leave my antivirus software on while using my adesso graphics tablet,
the drawing pointer won't respond to my pen movements normally - it
hesitates, then jumps - renders my tablet
useless !

You don't suppose they have an understood, unspoken agreement to not step on
the toes of the antivirus software folks do you ? OF COURSE THEY DO !!!

I complained to my ISP, which is Earthlink and they just blew me off without
giving me an answer as to why their so called antivirus scans aren't
catching virus's my antivirus is catching.

Try asking your Internet Service Providers the same question: "Why the hell
aren't they catching virus's before they even reach your computer ?" - You
know - just for a good laugh !
 
Dave said:
Why don't ISP's Stop all Virus's ?!?

You gotta wonder why our Internet Service Providers don't scan email's and
other file uploads.
After all, they can buy the same Antivirus software we can !

So, instead we all have to pay for antivirus software and be burdened with
in many cases severly impeaded systems that operate at only a fraction of
the normal speed if
antivirus software isn't running.

If I leave my antivirus software on while using my adesso graphics tablet,
the drawing pointer won't respond to my pen movements normally - it
hesitates, then jumps - renders my tablet
useless !

You don't suppose they have an understood, unspoken agreement to not step
on
the toes of the antivirus software folks do you ? OF COURSE THEY DO !!!

I complained to my ISP, which is Earthlink and they just blew me off
without
giving me an answer as to why their so called antivirus scans aren't
catching virus's my antivirus is catching.

Try asking your Internet Service Providers the same question: "Why the
hell
aren't they catching virus's before they even reach your computer ?" - You
know - just for a good laugh !
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same reason why the post office don't stop all your junk mail..........its
addressed to you.....no matter what it is.
 
Dave said:
Why don't ISP's Stop all Virus's ?!?
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Nothing stops 'all' virus.
You gotta wonder why our Internet Service Providers don't scan email's and
other file uploads.
After all, they can buy the same Antivirus software we can !
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Besides the fact that "the same Antivirus software" doesn't work for
servers, scanning takes a lot of CPU cycles.
So, instead we all have to pay for antivirus software and be burdened with
in many cases severly impeaded systems that operate at only a fraction of
the normal speed if
antivirus software isn't running.
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And it would be grand if your ISP's servers had that problem?
If I leave my antivirus software on while using my adesso graphics tablet,
the drawing pointer won't respond to my pen movements normally - it
hesitates, then jumps - renders my tablet
useless !
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So you'd like everything through the internet via your ISP to have the same
problem?
You don't suppose they have an understood, unspoken agreement to not step on
the toes of the antivirus software folks do you ? OF COURSE THEY DO !!!
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Oh goodie, another conspiracy theory.
I complained to my ISP, which is Earthlink and they just blew me off without
giving me an answer as to why their so called antivirus scans aren't
catching virus's my antivirus is catching.

Try asking your Internet Service Providers the same question: "Why the hell
aren't they catching virus's before they even reach your computer ?" - You
know - just for a good laugh !
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You'll be better off solving the problem on your end because, for one,
nothing can catch 'all' virus and, two, email isn't the only means of
infection so even if your ISP *could* find them all in your email you'd
still need local protection.
 
David Maynard said:
Nothing stops 'all' virus.


And it would be grand if your ISP's servers had that problem?
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Defending business is David Maynard's main function in life. oozing
his libertarian politics through everything he says.
Oh goodie, another conspiracy theory.
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Another in a long list of David Maynard's conspiracy theories about
conspiracy theories.
You'll be better off solving the problem on your end because, for
one, nothing can catch 'all' virus
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What part of "catching viruses my antivirus is catching" is
difficult for you to understand?
and, two, email isn't the only means of infection
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Why is following the conversation so difficult for you?
 
John said:
Defending business is David Maynard's main function in life. oozing
his libertarian politics through everything he says.
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Besides your comment being an asinine pile of crap, tell me what the heck
it has to do with how much CPU time it takes to scan for virus.

Another in a long list of David Maynard's conspiracy theories about
conspiracy theories.
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Why don't you look up the meaning of the word? Hint "unspoken agreement."

And while you're at it, look up troll too.

What part of "catching viruses my antivirus is catching" is
difficult for you to understand?
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None. What part of email not being the only means of infection do you not
understand?
Why is following the conversation so difficult for you?
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You're the one who's lost.
 
JAD said:
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ask a MAC user...<G>
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Hehe. Well, can't know that since, according to our hip MAC poster boy who
doesn't know the meaning of "touche'," there aren't any to see if they'd be
'stopped'.
 
They do .. for a fee. I think they hesitate to advertise
that. Most of them use Postini ... and that is backed
by McAfee AV ... for email filtering. Postini is also
a pretty good spam filter. Still, web browsing can
get you into all kinds of trojans, and those things
generally get past the ISP scanners. It is still a
good idea to use levels of filtering, and have AV on
your local PC as well as at the ISP. I pay $18 a
year for Postini. Big deal. I pay about $30 a year
for McAfee on my PC ... and it whacks web trojans
all the time. I also have a copy of Window Washer
that I run after every browse session. WW asks no
questions. It just totally deletes every single byte
in the IE cache, and then writes over that 3x with
random chars. Every since I have started doing
that, Adaware and Spybot have never spotted
another piece of scumware that likes to hide in
those places. WW is not clever. It is just a 500
pound gorilla, and smashes the junkola.

johns
 
None. What part of email not being the only means of infection do you not
understand?
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The few times through my computing history I was hit with a
virus didn't come by email. It came by downloading suspicious files,
from suspicious websites, and thinking they where safe to execute. I
just use my ISP's web mail page, and this eliminates auto execution of
malware. I don't want to rely on my ISP filering my data for what they
may think is bad for me. Unfortunatly, we are gona be there soon, and
it won't be just viruses, and other malware.
 
Why don't ISP's Stop all Virus's ?!?

You gotta wonder why our Internet Service Providers don't scan email's and
other file uploads.
After all, they can buy the same Antivirus software we can !

So, instead we all have to pay for antivirus software and be burdened with
in many cases severly impeaded systems that operate at only a fraction of
the normal speed if
antivirus software isn't running.

If I leave my antivirus software on while using my adesso graphics tablet,
the drawing pointer won't respond to my pen movements normally - it
hesitates, then jumps - renders my tablet
useless !

You don't suppose they have an understood, unspoken agreement to not step on
the toes of the antivirus software folks do you ? OF COURSE THEY DO !!!

I complained to my ISP, which is Earthlink and they just blew me off without
giving me an answer as to why their so called antivirus scans aren't
catching virus's my antivirus is catching.

Try asking your Internet Service Providers the same question: "Why the hell
aren't they catching virus's before they even reach your computer ?" - You
know - just for a good laugh !
Click to expand...

Welcome to the modern world! A world where it is possible for people to
get their kicks by developing malware and viruses to irritate us all!

And since we now are in the modern world, hey, how about upgrading your PC
instead of complaining? I have an anti-virus running in the background all
the time, and I see now noticeable performance hit on any of the
applications and games I use.

Here some tips for you:

1) Use an anti-virus softare that is trustworthy, yet does not try to take
over your entire computer. If you bought the full suite from Symantec, for
example, I would imagine you would suffer a much larger performance hit
than if you used only their anti-virus package, or one of the freebies
available for download (I use Antivir myself).

2) Go into your anti-virus software's options and adjust things as you
find fit to your situation. You do not have to have every file type
scanned all the time! You certainly should be able to exclude certain file
types, particularly ones used by the applications that seem to be slowing
down.

3) Under certain circumstances, turn off your anti-virus scanning
completely, temporarily, if necessary. Do this, though, only if you have a
firewall that denies any attempts to create an external connection to your
PC. A cheap hardware firewall that does this (and can serve also as a
switch or hub for a number of computers) does not cost very much at all.

4) And if just the presence of your antivirus resident in memory disturbs
your performance that much, well, it is time for either more RAM or a PC
upgrade.
 
coolsti said:
Welcome to the modern world! A world where it is possible for people to
get their kicks by developing malware and viruses to irritate us all!

And since we now are in the modern world, hey, how about upgrading your PC
instead of complaining? I have an anti-virus running in the background all
the time, and I see now noticeable performance hit on any of the
applications and games I use.

Here some tips for you:

1) Use an anti-virus softare that is trustworthy, yet does not try to take
over your entire computer. If you bought the full suite from Symantec, for
example, I would imagine you would suffer a much larger performance hit
than if you used only their anti-virus package, or one of the freebies
available for download (I use Antivir myself).

2) Go into your anti-virus software's options and adjust things as you
find fit to your situation. You do not have to have every file type
scanned all the time! You certainly should be able to exclude certain file
types, particularly ones used by the applications that seem to be slowing
down.

3) Under certain circumstances, turn off your anti-virus scanning
completely, temporarily, if necessary. Do this, though, only if you have a
firewall that denies any attempts to create an external connection to your
PC. A cheap hardware firewall that does this (and can serve also as a
switch or hub for a number of computers) does not cost very much at all.

4) And if just the presence of your antivirus resident in memory disturbs
your performance that much, well, it is time for either more RAM or a PC
upgrade.
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Agreed, I use AVG and detest Mcafee and Norton, didn't we have a thread
on that recently :)
Also you don't ony get virus's from emails as someone else pointed out.
Also the less my ISP interferes with my internet traffic the better imo.
simon
 
Dave said:
Why don't ISP's Stop all Virus's ?!?

You gotta wonder why our Internet Service Providers don't scan email's and
other file uploads.
After all, they can buy the same Antivirus software we can !

So, instead we all have to pay for antivirus software and be burdened with
in many cases severly impeaded systems that operate at only a fraction of
the normal speed if
antivirus software isn't running.

If I leave my antivirus software on while using my adesso graphics tablet,
the drawing pointer won't respond to my pen movements normally - it
hesitates, then jumps - renders my tablet
useless !

You don't suppose they have an understood, unspoken agreement to not step on
the toes of the antivirus software folks do you ? OF COURSE THEY DO !!!

I complained to my ISP, which is Earthlink and they just blew me off without
giving me an answer as to why their so called antivirus scans aren't
catching virus's my antivirus is catching.
Click to expand...
Decent ones do. Both my ISP and my domain host have Antivirus.

Perhaps you should get a decent ISP.
 
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