RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary E. Miller [mailto:gem () rellim com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:30 AM
> To: Thor Larholm
> Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Administrivia: Testing 
> Emergency Virus Filter..
>
> The wetware could make better decisions is his M$ Outlook 
> actually told him he was running an .exe file instead of 
> looking at a .gif...
Do you really believe this?  I don't.  One only has to look at the Sobig
outbreak yesterday to realize that some subset of the 100% of users out
there will execute an attachment *despite* being repeatedly warned about
the dangers.  My God, when all you have to do is put "See attached file"
in the body and people *still* execute the virus, it becomes self
evident that *no* amount of education is going to completely solve the
problem.

Now, give that there are those kinds of people out there, do you
*really* think Unix is the answer?  If these people are clueless on
Windows, just *imagine* the number of rooted Linux boxes you would have
if everyone switched to Unix.

> Friends don't let friends use Windows.
Friends teach their friends how to *think* for themselves.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

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