Re: Microsoft have got to make PC users aware of the problem

From: Alun Jones [MS MVP] (alun_at_texis.invalid)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 03:42:37 GMT

In article <eAwDMyN5DHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, "Keith MacDonald"
<nospam@parasites.com> wrote:
>> What they where talking about I think is the average home-user. The
>> average home-user does not have a computer-consultant that deals with
>> updating their machines. Did you think they do?
>
>Exactly! At 1 am last night, my company e-mail server was rejecting
>infected messages at a rate of nearly 200 per minute. When I looked at the
>log files, I could see that the majority of them were coming from computers
>on broadband connections - i.e home PCs. Far from contributing to the
>problem, my server was being brought to its knees, filtering the tidal flow
>of spam emanating from unprotected PCs.

Once again, why is it Microsoft's fault? Isn't it the ISP's fault, for
providing such high-speed access to people who haven't a clue, and for not
filtering outgoing email connections?

Did you complain to some of those ISPs asking them to shut down Internet
access for the infected users?

Alun.
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