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36465	2002-02-20 19:55:00	I regularly recieve warnings from my ISP, iGRIN, that they have intercepted a virus attached to an e-mail sent to me and have with held it. They advise who the sender was and I then normally contact them and advise. My question is why do other ISP's not intercept viruses as iGRIN does? Most of the virus warnings I have recieved have been forwarded via the 'big' ISP's (Xtra, Clearnet, etc)the latest warning I recieved during the night and concerned the '1-Worm.Magistr.b' virus. This is not a new one -or is it- so why did they not pick it up?? Would be interested on your general comments PP	Guest (0)
36466	2002-02-21 01:54:00	ihug do.... if you pay them to do it. I understand from a friend who runs an ISP that margins are slim. Any services that they provide has to be paid for. If the costs of providing services cannot be recovered they'll eventually put themselves out of business. And no, it's not just a case of buying a copy of Nortons and running it on the server. They'd be buying an enterprise version of the software costing thousands. Rule # One in business - you provide a service to make money. ISPs are no exception.	Guest (0)
36467	2002-02-21 02:25:00	I understand there will be a cost to such a service, but why can a relatively small player like iGRIN provide a service like this for free when others can't? I admit it is a shoe string operation in that they do not provide 24hr online help but from my limited experience with Xtra, the so called online help is not the best. iGRIN's IT man is online on ICQ during office hours and he can be contacted that way. I did note that they use a virus check at http://www.kaspersky.com/ which I had never heard of until they started using it and it certainly seems to work. PP	Guest (0)
36468	2002-02-21 05:52:00	Paradise lets the virus go through	Guest (0)
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