From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
jdow wrote:
Who is going to file the first lawsuit against an owner of a zombied
system
for sending spam? It should be interesting legal theater.
You might get somewhere in a civil suit if you could prove that you were
somehow damaged by this spam and for some reason you were unable to defend
yourself against it while expecting the sender to be able to.
I wouldn't count on a jury to understand the concept, or to agree that all
owners of computers should be expected to know more than the vendor or OS
distributer about computer science and pick appropriate add-ons - or that
anyone should be required to reinstall their OS at the frequency needed to
get the fedora updates necessary to maintain security.
The number of naifs who do not run regular malware scanning and
anti-virus tools is somewhat surprising to the technically unchallenged.
Those are the people who need to get beat on to clean up their machines.
That said, competent AV should be a part of an OS installation. (Note
that Microsoft's AV toy is not nearly competent.)
{^_-}
