At 03:31 PM 4/5/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed:
I'm still not convinced that the only response to any infection is a
total reinstall. But I haven't read the article completely yet, so
perhaps I'll come around. But if MS is right, then it's time for
everyone, and I mean everyone, to abandon ship and switch to Apple
or *nix now because if the maker of the product says it's unsafe and
unfixable, then we are nuts to be using it.
Sounds to me like MSFT is trying to scare people into Windows
Defender or Windows One Care subscriptions to me but either way until
MSFT provides a decent imaging app such as Ghost I'm not buying it.
"Social engineering is a very, very effective technique. We have
statistics that show significant infection rates for the social
engineering malware. Phishing is a major problem because there
really is no patch for human stupidity," he said.
Just because large corporations may have a problem with hiring idiots
does that mean the bright people here have anything to worry about. ;-)
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