JeffM wrote:
People who still click links in email deserve what they get. (Phished.)
Not so fast. Not all links are bad, and there are good practices that help you avoid that. For example, if a colleague at ABC Corp, whom you already know and trust, invites you to visit http://www.abccorp.com, and you mouse over the link and see the same address in the status bar, you're probably OK. On the other hand, if a stranger invites you to confirm that you've changed your bank password, and the link appears to be to your bank but the status bar shows http://cfm.cn/phishing.asp, you'd be well advised to avoid it.
A similar argument can be made for attachments. I know some paranoids who say you should never open any attachment of any kind from anyone. But my job requires me to receive files from clients for processing, and to return my work product to them as an attachment. The whole process would come to a screeching halt if we refused to open each other's files, and I'd have to find another line of work. So I take reasonable precautions, scan incoming files for viruses, etc.
And I'm not going to stop driving my car because some people occasionally have accidents.
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