From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 4:53:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F88C37B41E for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:53:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16KIzW-0000fO-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:53:35 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id DD4601149; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:24:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:24:59 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX Message-ID: <20011229122459.GE3776@raggedclown.net> References: <02eb01c1902e$69629bd0$fe00a8c0@wskatinka> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02eb01c1902e$69629bd0$fe00a8c0@wskatinka> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:02:29PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeffrey" > > > So while I really don't care if a person defragments their disk, repairs > > broken software, uninstalls old software or even updates their drivers. I > > do care that they are not maintaining their machine to at least the point > > that they are not attacking one of my servers. > > Thi sis one of my pet gripes, I think that AV software should be free, as it > is fine and dandy for the people with the money to buy it and protect their > system, but the people who can not afford it, unknowingly get infected and > spread it to the rest of the world, so what some ppl say, I would rather > have an AV software that has one hit per day than the current 30 hits I am > experiencing, and most of the viri are coming from ppl who either can not > afford the fees to get the defs or do not know how to...... Maybe we should > insist ppl pass a basic computer course before going on the internet ? ;o) > There are a couple of points here. One since Microsoft software is almost single-handedly responsible for the spread of viruses across the globe, which as pointed out above, does affect all public services even if they use non-ms software, then Microsoft should be responsible enough to give all users of their OS'es a lifetime subscription gratis to an anti-viral service. That will not happen. Solution 2. People should accept the expense of buying an anti-viral agent as being necessary to the safe-keeping of the Internet. What happens is that many ISP's give out anti-viral software as part of the deal on a 6 month license, and then people never bother to re-new their subscription. Solution 3. ISP's should be held responsible for any of their users who spread viruses through non-use of anti-viral agents. They should either make it a condition of service, or themselves run a gratis anti-viral service. This is called social-responsibility. Running MS software without active anti-viral checking is the technoglogical equivalent of having sex with strangers without using a condom. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message