Controls are ineffective without user cooperation

Sat Jul 17 18:35:31 UTC 2004

On Jul 17, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> 1) she's overwhelmed by the amount of things that pop up at you, ask 
> you to
> click on them, tell you theyre an email from microsoft etc etc

Yeah, that sux.

Someone should fix that.  Get right on that, would you? :)

In the mean time, tell her not to deal with the pop-ups, just remember 
to click Start -> Windows Update _herself_, manually, once a week or 
so.  And install a virus checker.  Oh, and since you know what you are 
doing, lock her system down so nothing can get in, since she only uses 
it for web browsing.

> 2) she "only uses the pc for web browsing, if it gets infected theres 
> no harm
> that can be done"
>
> So how do you argue with that?

If the idea of spewing millions of spams to other people does not 
affect her, you could threaten her with violence.

Also, a lot of people who "only do web browsing" sometimes "browse" to 
their bank....

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TTFN,
patrick