>> I often recommend to my mother and brother, who use computers: "Don't do >> anything when you aren't sure what are you doing." Especially when there >> people sometimes come and say: "Hey, Aley, it's broken." I ask: "What >> happened?" They answer: "It wrote something I didn't undersand. So I clicked >> OK. And now I can't boot up." Or something similar. > >You live and learn. Nothing teaches you something like making a mistake. >Baby sticks hand on sharp pointy thing, baby doesn't do it again. You can >only shelter baby so much - you can't stick him in a cardboard box and hide >him from the world. Baby has to learn.
Baby has to learn, but you can't let it try everything!!! Or you think we should build many new petrol stations, because everybody must one blow up, and then he will know..... ??? summary: I don't say that children should be kept in a black box. But I don't think it is clever to go and click anything I don't know. Especially if people don't know computers well, they should be careful, as in the real life. If you tak a power saw and cut out our hand, it's because you weren't too careful. It doesn't mean that power saw is a bad thing and should be banned. Of course, Microsoft did several calamitous errors, when he bring technologies which allow anybody to run any software anywhere (aren't there too many any's...?). In other hand ILOVEYOU is not a real 'virus'. It is a destructive program, which must be run!!! You can't activate it by reading e-mails, unless you are mouse-fanatic and double click on all attachments, even if they are very suspicious. But what I ORIGINALLY wanted to say, is that it is also stupid to block execution of all script (.VBS) files. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Simon, don't you want also block .EXE files, which can contain 'viruses' too? Making it this way, many people will at least think .vbs is something bad. But it is a great thing! Aley
