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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Schmehl, Paul L)
Subject: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary E. Miller [mailto:gem@...lim.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:30 AM
> To: Thor Larholm
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.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@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
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