Re: Firewalls and Cryptography

In article <45334d51@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bumens@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
BobS <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Your statement was that a firewall cannot protect against viruses. They
can.

Seems to be a problem of definitions.

make statements that are ill defined and then decide to bend it to suit you
when someone calls you on it.

I'm trying to be exact now:

A Virus Scanner is something, that detects malware in streams or in
persistent data ("detecting negative things"). I'm not using virus
scanners, which search RAM, because I think they're useless.

Code red worm is a memory resident worm that doesnt write to the file
system.Why would you say a virus scanner that searchs ram is useless?
me
.

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