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Thursday, February 5, 2004 |
Geeks Put the Unsavvy on Alert: Learn or Log Off. As the MyDoom virus continues its travels, the computer-savvy are becoming hostile toward those who still open unknown e-mail attachments. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
This attitude is stupid and counter producing. I have been accused of being infected by PC virus even though I use a Mac! First, some virus spoof the email address. Second, Virus detection tools are not perfect, so the goods ones err on the false positive side (better to reject a good message than to accept a contaminated one), so not all virus detections are actually true. It is better to educate people, but for that, technologist will have to start telling the truth: The reliance on Windows is not a good thing...
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