Dumb users spread viruses

Mon Feb 9 07:35:42 UTC 2004

Roland Perry wrote:

>
> 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.

The users that are the problem anyway will vote for convinience with 
their wallets. If they wouldn´t, they would not be buying the systems 
that conviniently allow them to execute and install code in the first 
place. It would be financially suicidal to make a piece of software to 
bother the user.

Pete