Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Mans Nilsson wrote:

Even in an imperfect world, the solution lies in the edge, not even the CPE, but the end node, if you want to do more than pathetic bandaiding of the inherent problem of insecure applications on end nodes.

This is the point, atleast I, have been trying to make for 2 years... end systems, or as close to that as possible, need to police themselves, the granularity and filtering capabilities (content filtering even) are available at that level alone.