Dumb users spread viruses
Roland Perry
nanog at internetpolicyagency.com
Mon Feb 9 00:46:51 UTC 2004
In article <000001c3eea4$2c9cd9f0$0200000a at pleth0ra>, Terry Baranski
<tbaranski at mail.com> writes
>Society as a whole could benefit from people taking more responsibility
>for themselves -- the Internet doesn't seem any different in this
>regard.
Which is fine (some would argue) as long as their irresponsibility
affects only them, and not the rest of society.
As for this business of "opening" (aka executing etc) files which users
have been sent. One useful first line of defence would be for client
software to insist that the name of the sender be typed into a box, as
some kind of confirmation that the sender was known to the user.
--
Roland Perry
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