> > > Security policies can also be applied to the hosts within the network. But >ultimately, the gateways > > are responsible for security of its internal network. obviously 'virus-control' was not being implied here !! I was referring to more of things like packet filtering, firewalling and IP security policies. which i agree have nothing to do with detecting malicious code. > Are are obviously from a different universe then the rest of us. In our > universe we us an incredibly flexible protocol called IP that is smart > enough to know that policy can only be truly effectively done on the > end-node and thus does it on the end node. > > I don't know how you would expect a router to know that an application is > requesting a file called README.EML much less that it contains malicious > code and that IE5 will execute it without it's users knowledge, except as > an after the fact clean-up measure initated by humans.
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