Frode Tenneboe wrote: > I don't expect everybody to know how to fix their car, but I do > expect that they don't bump into me, wreck other peoples cars and > properties and kill other people. It has to do with general awareness > and ability to cope with the tool you have been equiped with.
In the extreme case of the ILOVEYOU virus it did bring down mail servers and disrupt services, but as long as I didn't run it myself it posed no threat to my own data integrity etc. In general the worst that happens is that the users that run the program will have their own data deleted etc. So they've driving a very soft car at low speeds with big spikes on the interior :-) > If you can't do that, you should not drive a car! We're not talking about hard disk partitioning tools - we're just talking about an e-mail reading program! Aren't the too most basic Internet tasks browsing the web and reading e-mail? Shouldn't a standard Window configuration protect 'dumb users' against these sort of things? (SP1 for Outlook does finally make it more difficult) > If my boss, my SO, my mother or my brother ever opened such a file, > I would laugh him/her in the face and mumble "I told you so". :) Heh! Well some people _should_ know better (like our support manager should have!!), but with the Internet being introduced to more and more non-techy users there are still plenty of others that don't. I've bailed out enough relatived from many non-virus-related incidents (haven't we all?), so I hate to think what would happen if they hadn't already been warned about them! Si
