On 2011-09-21 3:32 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
It seems to me that both the network and the endpoints are at risk. By what degree the endpoint exceeds the network is an open question for me since (in my observations) most folks and organizations don't boast like ComodoHacker. Sadly, I suspect its 'epidemic vs pandemic' and not 'rare/isolated vs occasional'.
It has been a very long time since I had virus or trojan on my home computers. The only time my website was hacked, someone had socially engineered my email password out of microsoft.
So it is not apparent to me that the node is the problem. My wife knows nothing about computers. I taught her not to click on anything that comes in email, that email is untrustworthy, that you should trust your own bookmarks rather than other people's links, and just don't download stuff unless you are sure where it comes from. She stopped getting viruses. Every so often she gets one of those scams "It is an emergency, click here", and she panics thinking it really is an emergency, but she does not click there.
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