Klarinet Archive - Posting 000231.txt from 2004/03

From: Don Alfonso <donaldj@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Virus
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:01:58 -0500

This may be a little off topic but, computer folks who in their daily
activities who create virus'shave way too much time in their hands,
these creative minds need a hobbly in their spare time, namely the
woodwinds. Minds that can create these bugs would make great composers.

Tom Wood wrote:

> At 09:45 AM 3/4/04, you wrote:
>
>> 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.)
>>
>
>
> Mark and Ken...........Am I correct in assuming that your average
> 'firewall' setup between a small office LAN and the ISP is no help
> protecting the LAN from a virus that enters the LAN as email or an
> email attachment?
>
> Tom W
>
>
>
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