Re: [iwar] News

From: Vernon Stagg
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:43:16 +1000
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I guess the problem with much of this is that many users, myself included,
have become blase with software especially Microsoft products in general. Too 
often we happily click on an email or allow a script to be run or try out
that new piece of software without really thinking. It is not enough these
days to have an anti-virus prog installed - especially if it is not updated 
regularly.

Usually we can recover from crashes/viruses without too much damage. It
is bugs like melissa/i love you or distributed DOS that have such a follow-on 
effect that has made them stand out. When bigger companies or multi-pc 
networks experience these problems is when they have large impact - a common
thing these days with business/uni/govt departments all networked.

The old "user-friendly" concept of software is surely time to be re-thought.
Defaults should be made to strict levels and make it the user's responsibility to
enable certain actions. The other problem is the growing tendency and 
dependency of products to integrate. 

Anyway, my two-cents worth :-)

V

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ed Tomlinson 
  To: iwar@egroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:38 PM
  Subject: RE: [iwar] News


  On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote:

  > Ask yourself why popular antivirus software DOESN'T check for the years-old
  > ".???.???" filename trick.  How much effort does it take to look for two
  > periods in the last eight characters of a filename?  Only evil attachments use
  > it.  Checking for it would have saved the world (before the fact!) from
  > ILoveYou, NewLove, and now Stages.

  Guess again.  Try something like: somename.tar.gz
  This type of name is VERY common in the unix world.

  Ed Tomlinson 
  http://www.cam.org/~tomlins/njpipes.html

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