Klarinet Archive - Posting 000217.txt from 2004/03

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@------.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Virus
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 09:45:45 -0500

I am writing from work. This place is not unique. A small percentage
of the people who play with computers here are plain and simply jerks.
We've had more than our share of infestations here and programs like
McAfee are so porous they'd let Vladimir Putin into a Chechnyan
liberation meeting.

Ken

Mark Gresham wrote:

>
> Ken Wolman wrote:
>
>> I won't say "most" computer users because I don't know numbers. But
>> there probably are too many users out there who will behave like one
>> of Pavlov's pups (I didn't say anything about dogs, just cats).
>> "Oooo, an attachment, I must open it, it must be important." Crash.
>
>
> ...including real-life cases where a company's employees have been told
> DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT open attachments -- and one of them does anyway
> within days of being warned not to do so, infecting the LAN with the
> very virus about which system security was issuing the warning.
>
> (It doesn't require "most" users, it only takes one.)
>

--
Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538