On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
: If even well-informed people do this, and can't fix their systems, what
: hope is there for the typical Internet user?
Absoultely none. Running a big eyeball network for the past year+ has
given me real insight to the end user that I didn't get at a
John Borland, a reporter for CNET News.com, made the mistake of loading
some software on a Windows machine and hoping it was possible to restore
the trustworthiness of a compromised Windows machine. In the end the
CNET IT department took his computer away and re-installed a fresh
image.