[67385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dumb users spread viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Mon Feb 9 11:21:46 2004
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:21:10 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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>> Uneducated users should live with the slowness [caused by a virus
>> scanner]. It's protecting the rest of the world from their blissful
>> ignorance.
* paul@vix.com (Paul Vixie) [Mon 09 Feb 2004, 16:30 CET]:
> if it protected them or anybody else i'd say you were right, but since it's
> a pattern matcher it always takes 2 to 24 hours for a new pattern file to
> be developed and distributed after a new worm is released. why even bother?
Because we're all still seeing Slammer, Nimda etc. infections occur.
> it's as if not knowing how the fuel injectors work on my car could make it
> blow up on the freeway. we'd blame the manufacturer, not the driver, right?
Can a driver reach the fuel injector controls during normal operation of
the vehicle? Ignorance of operation needn't always pose an acute danger.
-- Niels.
