On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:18:33 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 7:51 pm, Charlie M. wrote: > > > > > > While I was away several people told me that they were just > > > doing something quite normal, 'and then I got the virus. And > > > I had done what Microsoft said in their message'. I know it's > > > ridiculous expecting virus writers to play fair, but this > > > particular scam is the one most likely to trap otherwise wary > > > people. Aarrgghhh! I'm not usually a violent person, but I'd > > > like to hang, draw and quarter the person that thought this > > > one up. > > > > > > Anne > > > > Thanks for an opportunity to join a rant Anne. (-; > > > > The sad part is that so many people will be taken in by such > > transparent "social engineering" crap. I spend more time > > de-worming infected Windows boxes than I do at anything else, > > and I'm not even trying to make a living at it. > > > My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She > carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as genuine > > mail. She runs antivirus and keeps it up to date. Still she > keeps getting virused emails in from the people who are on a > mailing group that she must use - the av software tells her it's > there, but it's too late. They can't fully activate, of course, > under Mozilla, as they can't launch the appropriate M$ apps to do > it, but they still manage to corrupt several files each time. The > cab files are always corrupted, and so is a java file. > Occasionally there's one or two more - this time there were two > downloaded zip files corrupted. > > Quite apart from the time I spend on this, it makes me very angry > that she takes every precaution a non-geek can be expected to > take, and yet still she suffers this regularly. As to where they > come from - I think without exception they have come from people > who send their mails through their work account, in local > hospitals! > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux User No.293302 > Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? > > > Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux with win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in 6 days (and counting). That may be a record. Saves a mint in upgrades (win and anti-virus junk), and protects us all from one more carrier. The only safe windows is isolated from the 'net. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
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