On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:51 +1000, Keith Carter wrote: > It is true that an e-mail with a virus can be sent supposedly from a friend. > What Paul is saying is that problems can be avoided with a good virus > checker whose signatures are updated regularly, every day if necessary.
(Keith, this is a general comment and not aimed at you - don't take it too personally ;-]) I'm in disbelief. I can't believe how forgiving people are. How much does a dodgy operating system have to cost you before you start blaming if for it's short comings? Surely some of the blame for this problem lies with Windows. Yes, without nasty little miscreants creating these virii you wouldn't have to worry about anti-virus software, but their are not totally to blame. If you employed a lock-smith to secure your house, and they install fly screens, but no actual locks, would you be happy with they job they had done? Say, you got robbed. Wouldn't you be a little bit concerned that they lock-smith hadn't done a proper job securing your house, or would you just say that because you had paid the lock-smith good money that whatever they did was enough because the thief should never had robbed you in the first place? (Any one who answered yes to this surely leaves their doors unlocked because only the robber is to blame for entering such an insecure house.) Design decisions were deliberately made with Windows was to developed to put security behind ease-of-use. This might sound find to most people, but unfortunately, and the architects I'm sure were aware of this, this makes is easier for anyone to use Windows. And yet, people literally pour money into firewalls and anti-virus software to protect themselves, seemingly without complaint. As I said, some people are unbelievably forgiving. Rodd ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
