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Re: Dumb users spread viruses
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:21:10 +0100
Uneducated users should live with the slowness [caused by a virus scanner]. It's protecting the rest of the world from their blissful ignorance.
* paul () vix com (Paul Vixie) [Mon 09 Feb 2004, 16:30 CET]:
if it protected them or anybody else i'd say you were right, but since it's a pattern matcher it always takes 2 to 24 hours for a new pattern file to be developed and distributed after a new worm is released. why even bother?
Because we're all still seeing Slammer, Nimda etc. infections occur.
it's as if not knowing how the fuel injectors work on my car could make it blow up on the freeway. we'd blame the manufacturer, not the driver, right?
Can a driver reach the fuel injector controls during normal operation of the vehicle? Ignorance of operation needn't always pose an acute danger. -- Niels.
Current thread:
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses, (continued)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Petri Helenius (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Roland Perry (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses E.B. Dreger (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Sean Donelan (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Charles Sprickman (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Roland Perry (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Todd Vierling (Feb 08)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Paul Vixie (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Niels Bakker (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Roland Perry (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Todd Vierling (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Mike Jezierski - BOFH (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses Robert Boyle (Feb 09)
- Re: Dumb users spread viruses John Payne (Feb 09)