[67365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dumb users spread viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Feb 9 02:37:26 2004
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 09:35:42 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <NRPc9zf7htJAFAyb@perry.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Roland Perry wrote:
>
> As for this business of "opening" (aka executing etc) files which
> users have been sent. One useful first line of defence would be for
> client software to insist that the name of the sender be typed into a
> box, as some kind of confirmation that the sender was known to the user.
The users that are the problem anyway will vote for convinience with
their wallets. If they wouldn´t, they would not be buying the systems
that conviniently allow them to execute and install code in the first
place. It would be financially suicidal to make a piece of software to
bother the user.
Pete
