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RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
From: "Jeffrey Race" <jrace () attglobal net>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:06:08 +0700
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:22:17 +0000 (GMT), Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
there are others of course... it's not the OS that matters in the long run, it's the administration of that OS (or so it seems to me, admittedly not a sysadmin though, anymore). Sure, initial/default installs might be problematic in one/all OS's,
And to give you the perfect example, my daughter's school's e-mail system had to be shut down last week(running on W2K). I asked the MIS manager how this could have happened if everyone other than the administrator were denied permissions to install executable files. He repled that when the school was set up, there was a big quarrel about this and the Information and Computer Technology Department (responsible for teaching computer technology to the students) insisted on an exemption for its staff so they could test software. Of course one of these computer experts clicked on some "see Britney Spears nude" link and installed a Trojan Horse program which converted the school's computer system with T1 link into a zombie to spam the entire world. They had to shut everything down to cleanse the system. Even the best software won't protect against the "whatever" users (a significant proportion of every community and increasing in recent years of new cultural norm of 'there is no right or wrong; if it feels good now, do it now'). Jeffrey Race -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 12/26/2004
Current thread:
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing, (continued)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Jeff Kell (Dec 18)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 19)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Morris (Dec 19)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Weeks (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 20)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Morris (Dec 19)
- chewy middle bmanning (Dec 21)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Jeffrey Race (Dec 26)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Sean Donelan (Dec 24)