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Posted by: 182554 (Tuesday 23 January 2007, 12:10 PM)

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Why end user has to pay the costs

Just thinking loudly, there should be a way to stop these virus signatures from floating over the Internet. I think, the world need to find a more effecient tool to stop the virus at the traffic level, i.e. Bad boys connect through ISPs as well as infected / spammed devices resend through ISPs and over Internet links, why not stopping the virus at the ISP or link level so it won't flow and gets killed while trying to spread "during the fact and not after the fact".

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