Re: Some Kudos for Dell
- From: "Kevin Childers" <wildthing123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:49:46 -0500
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <ML6Le.43708$vb3.42305@xxxxxxxx>, wildthing123@xxxxxxxxxxx
> says...
> > The ISP is responsible for ensuring the availability of said
services.
> > Most have established procedures to protect the network and it's access.
> > Beyond that there is a limit to the protection they are willing to offer
to
> > individual end user systems due to cost and liability. I've worked at
a
> > number of ISPs, network services companies and computer shops. In the
end
> > cost and liability trumps all else.
>
> Enabling NAT on the DSL/Cable modems that support it doesn't COST
> anything in actually increases the capacity of the network by decreasing
> the number of newly compromised machines. It's hard to get that idea
> into the head of the managers and CFO's - if you provide NAT and free
> virus software for clients, that your network becomes cleaner and less
> used due to viruses not spamming outbound around the net from your
> network.
>
But as of last count that still leaves a large majority of internet
users on dial-up unprotected. Not all service providers have the capacity
or the desire to provide free home networking services to residential
customers. These come at a cost that most providers would rather avoid.
Additionally there comes the question of liability. Surprisingly this what
keeps many smaller service providers out of the antivirus/antispam venue.
Ideally each end user machine should have it's own anti-virus protection as
well as the network servers and the network it's self. In the USA the legal
climate is such that were said services provided by the ISP and they were to
fail in some way the potential for a law suit is quite high. We made a tidy
profit helping to keep them clean. Add to this the total disregard of any
possible virus/malware threat by many P2P users, it just becomes over
whelming.
Not to mention that there are a number of commercial apps, and not all
are in true legacy status, that do not work and play well with antivirus
programs. I know of several companies we supported that required their
agents/representatives to use said apps.
The filtering of Email becomes another nightmare due to the sheer volume
of spam on top of viruses that an ISP must shift through. Then there is the
risk of a false positive that delays or dumps some vital business
correspondence. The only way we were able to implement anti-spam and
antivirus on our Email servers was to first get a blanket best efforts, etc.
waiver from the end users or the domain owner and then add a small charge to
cover the additional resources required.
So when you add the human, technical, and financial barriers most ISPs
simply can't afford it. As a minimum we and most other ISPs I know of
did/do provide a rather extensive section on the company web site warning
about the potential threats that exist on the web as well as best practice
to protect networks and end users. The monthly hit count on those pages
though was never very high.
KC
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