On 2003.06.13 18:41 -ray wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, will hill wrote: > > > If people were aware of the problem their computers are causing, they > > would work to fix it. > > Hahahaha.... if that were true, virii wouldn't not exist. :) Deal with > the public lately? In my dealings with trying to educate the general > public on computer security, most people simply do not care. Do NOT care > in the least. If it doesn't directly affect what they are trying to do, > they could care less. Unfortunately, blocking SMTP ports doesn't directly > affect most people. >
Yes they do care. The problem is that they don't care enough to look further than Microsoft's billion dollar advert budget. That would be OK, if the rest of us who know better were not afraid to tell people that no amount of patching, firewalling, band-aid or duct tape will overcome Microsoft's design flaws. You have to educate people when their computers are so loaded with spyware, viruses and other comercial cruft that they don't work. They might even go for the fix if it were redily available at a lower cost than the next M$ shiny thing. I've got nothing better to do, so I'm going to do just that. I may get to eat my words, but I'm going to have fun doing it.
