[67372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dumb users spread viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Mon Feb 9 08:26:38 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:23:16 +0000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <4027384E.4050203@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <4027384E.4050203@he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
writes
>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.
It doesn't cost the user any extra to include such a feature in the next
version of Windows, and in all the Critical Updates downloaded starting
tomorrow. [Obviously it costs MS something to do the software
development.]
--
Roland Perry
