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Dumb users spread viruses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Feb 8 15:42:36 2004

Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 15:41:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



>The 'nothing to do with me' mob are the major offenders, making up 90 per
>cent of the 1,000 UK employees surveyed. This vast majority believe that
>they have no part to play in preventing the spread of viruses, and that
>it is the responsibility of the IT department, Microsoft or the government.

>almost two thirds (60 per cent) aren't aware of even the most basic
>virus-protection methods and one third claims to be too busy to bother -
>even if they knew how.

http://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39118228,00.htm


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