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Story: 'Clean up this Internet effluent now'

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I couldn't agree more that the monitoring and deletion of spam / viruses should move to a higher level than is currently the case. Many home users still don't have a clue how to protect their machines, and many cannot afford proper protection but still show their faces (and their backs!) on the net. Also, in third-world countries there are ISP's who struggle to provide the bandwidth that customers pay for, but there are always "low-tech" glitches which ensure that you don't even get that bandwidth. When spam starts rolling in, Internet access becomes nigh impossible, and the potential benefits for businesses in these countries fall away. Do we go back to the cleft stick, or do we accept that monitoring is better done as suggested, at Internet level? I'd willingly trade some degree of privacy for properly audited protection, stop frantically searching the Web at ridiculously low speed for patches, fixes (and nostrums), and get back to doing business in a relatively normal manner.

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