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Re: Controls are ineffective without user cooperation

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Sat Jul 17 14:38:20 2004 
On Jul 17, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
1) she's overwhelmed by the amount of things that pop up at you, ask you to
click on them, tell you theyre an email from microsoft etc etc
Yeah, that sux.

Someone should fix that. Get right on that, would you? :)

In the mean time, tell her not to deal with the pop-ups, just remember to click Start -> Windows Update _herself_, manually, once a week or so. And install a virus checker. Oh, and since you know what you are doing, lock her system down so nothing can get in, since she only uses it for web browsing.


2) she "only uses the pc for web browsing, if it gets infected theres no harm
that can be done"

So how do you argue with that?
If the idea of spewing millions of spams to other people does not affect her, you could threaten her with violence.

Also, a lot of people who "only do web browsing" sometimes "browse" to their bank....

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TTFN,
patrick