David G. Miller wrote:
So if you still think a 70-year-old woman with white hair who wants to
send and email to her niece living in another city is resposible of
not-knowing about viruses and malware...good for you.
I've used th analogy of cars when discussing this subject. It actually
fits fairly well.
The piece that doesn't fit is the cost of fixing problems that are
discovered after distribution. Copying bits around is pretty cheap
compared to welding on some new iron.
For computers that means either running and learning how to secure an OS
such as Linux or *BSD or, if they run Windows, installing a decent
anti-virus program and running a firewall. I spend a couple minutes a
day verifying that chkrootkit didn't find anything malicious and
logwatch is just reporting nominal stuff. For Windows boxes it's even
easier since anti-virus products like Norton scan the system at start-up
and then actively scan incoming e-mail, etc. I don't think that's too
much to ask.
Are there any Chinese users here that can comment on this:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2814&rss
as an example of how third party products work? (It's a report that
Symantic AV recently deleted system files on Simplified Chinese XP SP2
and prevented them from booting).
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
