From: AJ McKee (aj.mckee at domain nmtbmedia.com)
Date: Fri 20 Sep 2002 - 01:19:03 IST
Agreed thinking is a good idea, but one cannot account for ones mother who
never used a computer before. Or ones sisters. While I have developed a
sense of "right and wrong" in relation to this subject, you cannot and
should ever expect your users to do the same. Thats a bit like saying give
all the users the su password as they will never do any harm.
Aj
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ilug-admin at domain linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at domain linux.ie]On Behalf Of Rick
>Moen
>Sent: 19 September 2002 17:20
>To: ilug at domain linux.ie
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] Virus protection
>
>
>Quoting AJ McKee (aj.mckee at domain nmtbmedia.com):
>
>> All the windows clients here still run antivirus software.
>
>Way back when I still had MS-Windows around, I used an alternative
>technology called "thinking". It's a highly effective virus-blocker,
>but for some reason not at all popular.
>
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>that should
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