I love IP Tables....

[jdow]

From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

> jdow wrote:
>>
>> Who is going to file the first lawsuit against an owner of a zombied 
>> system
>> for sending spam? It should be interesting legal theater.
>
> You might get somewhere in a civil suit if you could prove that you were 
> somehow damaged by this spam and for some reason you were unable to defend 
> yourself against it while expecting the sender to be able to.
>
> I wouldn't count on a jury to understand the concept, or to agree that all 
> owners of computers should be expected to know more than the vendor or OS 
> distributer about computer science and pick appropriate add-ons - or that 
> anyone should be required to reinstall their OS at the frequency needed to 
> get the fedora updates necessary to maintain security.

The number of naifs who do not run regular malware scanning and
anti-virus tools is somewhat surprising to the technically unchallenged.
Those are the people who need to get beat on to clean up their machines.
That said, competent AV should be a part of an OS installation. (Note
that Microsoft's AV toy is not nearly competent.)

{^_-}