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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