Dumb users spread viruses

Roland Perry nanog at internetpolicyagency.com
Mon Feb 9 13:23:16 UTC 2004


In article <4027384E.4050203 at he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius <pete at he.iki.fi> 
writes
>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.

It doesn't cost the user any extra to include such a feature in the next 
version of Windows, and in all the Critical Updates downloaded starting 
tomorrow. [Obviously it costs MS something to do the software 
development.]
-- 
Roland Perry



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