[72571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Sat Jul 17 14:36:03 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407171316230.20241-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:35:31 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Jul 17, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> 1) she's overwhelmed by the amount of things that pop up at you, ask
> you to
> click on them, tell you theyre an email from microsoft etc etc
Yeah, that sux.
Someone should fix that. Get right on that, would you? :)
In the mean time, tell her not to deal with the pop-ups, just remember
to click Start -> Windows Update _herself_, manually, once a week or
so. And install a virus checker. Oh, and since you know what you are
doing, lock her system down so nothing can get in, since she only uses
it for web browsing.
> 2) she "only uses the pc for web browsing, if it gets infected theres
> no harm
> that can be done"
>
> So how do you argue with that?
If the idea of spewing millions of spams to other people does not
affect her, you could threaten her with violence.
Also, a lot of people who "only do web browsing" sometimes "browse" to
their bank....
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TTFN,
patrick
