RE: [fw-wiz] The home user problem returns

From: Tina Bird (tbird_at_precision-guesswork.com)
Date: 09/14/05

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    To: "'Paul D. Robertson'" <paul@compuwar.net>, "'Scott Pinzon'" <Scott.Pinzon@watchguard.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:18:32 -0700

    > Well, statistics would probably bear him out. Anna
    > Kournikova was big
    > enough and fast enough that it *should* have been all the
    > wake-up call we
    > needed. I remember talking to someone who recounted an end-user
    > experience-
    >
    > Admin: "Why did you click on the virus, didn't you see all
    > the press coverage?"
    > User: "Yes, I wanted to see what it would do!"

    **chuckles ruefully**

    it isn't just end users who do that. while i was at counterpane, one of our
    customers told us that s/he was glad they'd been compromised by nimda,
    because it was exciting to be affected by something that got CNN coverage...

    /me returns to pounding forehead with large rock

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