[67353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dumb users spread viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)
Sun Feb 8 21:23:47 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Feb 2004 22:46:17 +0000"
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:23:10 +0900 (JST)
From: itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> In this past year's tour of my friends and family, I've taken to removing
> their antivirus software at the same time I remove their spyware, and I've
> taken to installing Mozilla (with its IMAP client) as a way to keep the
> machine from having any dependency on anti-virus software. IT managers are
> encouraged to consider a similar move next time they're asked to approve
> the renewal costs of a campus-wide anti-virus license.
when my mother wanted to use the web, i gave her a laptop with ROM-boot
linux (Mozilla runs on top of it). so far i saw no problem, she's okay
with using linux. ROM-boot linux was from www.cramworks.com.
(she is using cellphone for emails)
itojun
PS: i have no relationship with cramworks.com
