On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:06:14PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> Dumb users need training, not an antivirus.
Agreed.
>
> If you are too cheap to school your people, put in their contracts that
> the expenses for clean-up, network bandwidth, warning remote sites and
> their clean-up fees will be deducted from their salary, three-fold.
Nice idea but one that is not likely to be implemented in the majority of companies.
>
> Or, even more drastic, make spreading viruses a reason for immediate
> termination of their job.
Even less likely, on the whole.
> What business have your users on the Internet if they have this little
> knowledge? Maybe you should hire a babysitting service?
Probably 95% of the worlds businesses. It's sad but most office personell doesnt have
a bloody clue and most companies dont care.
Changing attitudes is one of the most difficult tasks one could take on.
> Who cares? I got dozens of copies and none of them caused any damage.
> It's the job of the administrator to make sure the working environment
> is immune to outside damage, and to the extent possible to inside damage
> as well.
Yes, and by preventing the virus from entering the companies systems this gets a lot
easier.
Inside damage, though, that's a tricky one (and not for this thread).
> If Sircam could do damage to your users, you did not do your job.
Is really daily tech support an issue for the sys admin?
Besides, by preventing SirCam to spread you HAVE prevented it from damaging your users
(ie, it could not send any potentially secret or sensitive documents anywhere).
Lars Hansson
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