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Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:35:31 -0400
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 toclick 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 harmthat 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....
-- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Sean Donelan (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Dave Dennis (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 15)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Peter Galbavy (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Patrick W Gilmore (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Krzysztof Adamski (Jul 17)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Dave Dennis (Jul 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Jul 16)
- Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 15)