Martin Gregorie <martin <at> gregorie.org> writes: > > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:26 +0000, Chih-Cherng wrote: > > > Notification help raise victims' security > > awareness, and motivate them to fix vulnerabilites within their computers. > > > I have my doubts about this. I have friends who help at retiree's > computer clubs and with disinfecting their friend's computers. > > The message I hear from them is that there are significant numbers of > users who refuse to help themselves: they don't/won't update their > system or their AV software, will click on anything, open any and all > mail and who won't learn that this is stupid behaviour. The reinfection > time for such gentry is about two weeks: it takes about that long before > they show up whining that their computer has become very slow again so > please do something about it.
Having one's own computer compromised is not the privilege of old people. Companies like Google, RSA, etc. all have been hacked and got their computers infected with malware. Did they discover that immediately after being compromised? No. And no current anti-virus can detect every malware in existence. I think more reporting/notifications should be done, which inform the victims , computer-literate or not, of something wrong with their computers. There have already been many data collection about botnets and other security threats, but not enough information sharing and event reporting is being done. Chih-Cherng Chin
