Re: One third of all PCs infected with hacking software

From: BeamGuy (nobody_at_SPAM.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:08:23 -0400

My corporation just had another afternoon when no one could do any
work because yet another virus was causing all their computers to reboot.
We have a team of 20 IT guys who do nothing but try to support our
networking needs - and even they could not keep the viruses out! I bet
they didn't even uninstall the backdoor programs that came attached. I
guess that is not such a bad idea since we are behind a firewall - but really
if they can't keep our network safe how on earth do you expect a
grandfather to do it?

If you continue with your elitist attitude of "I know how to keep my system
safe from attack therefore everyone should or they should not be connected
to the internet" you may find yourself alone on the internet - and out of a job
by the way since a great deal of the market for computers these days is to
those grandfathers who cannot read the manual.

"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospamcableone.net> wrote in message news:Oqx6qngVEHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Greetings --
>
> Apparently you've never heard of distasteful, inappropriate, or
> just plain bad, television programs. And has your locale somehow
> missed the bane of telemarketers? ;-}
>
> I cannot imagine a more unrealistic or dangerous attitude. A
> computer, as a consumer product, should be treated no differently than
> any other potentially dangerous (though not usually, in the case of a
> PC, in the physical sense) consumer product.
>
> Do people immediately know how to safely operate a motor vehicle,
> "out of the box," as it were, simply by virtue of having purchased it?
> Do people instinctively know how to operate a chainsaw without
> amputating an otherwise useful limb? Even your ordinary, simple
> electric household appliances are dangerous when operated improperly.
> "Why can't I used the blender in the bathtub to foam up the bubblebath
> soap?"
>
> It doesn't matter what the product is. If a person it going to
> purchase and use it, it's his responsibility to learn how to do so
> safely and responsibility. Your desire to have "big brother"
> corporations dumb-down and cotton-wrap their products to protect
> consumers from themselves is, ultimately, very dangerous. Taken to
> its extreme, we'd end up with a society of helpless infants, incapable
> of doing anything for themselves.
>
>
> Bruce Chambers
> --
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>
> You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> having both at once. - RAH
>
>
> "Johannes H Andersen" <"johs"@sizefitter_spam _gets_fried.com> wrote
> in message news:_VQAc.9$if3.2@newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net...
> >
> >
> >
> > Why should they? Should they also learn to secure their TVs or
> telephones?
> > An internet computer is an appliance that you plug in and use. Most
> people
> > are not technicians and don't care. The system ought to be designed
> for
> > use out of the box.
>
>

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