I love IP Tables....

[Les Mikesell]

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.)

Are you saying vulnerability to viruses is acceptable and end users are 
supposed to be smarter then the OS vendors in working around it?

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   Les Mikesell
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