From: Richard B. 

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:56:08 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>Ok I understand your point, but lets say you are a home user who's infected,
>why bother to spend the time to clean your machine? I mean if it weren't for
>ISP's kicking them off the net to force them to clean, what motivation would
>they have?

But so many more are just happy getting exploit after exploit until they
get tired of their "slow" PC and go buy another one.

Home users are generally infested with all sorts of malware and viruses. 
I'm amazed *any* are connected to the internet if the ISPs are kicking them
off.

I was at an IT class last night and the damn place (who also teach
security) had Sasser, unbelievable.  I've been at webex presentations when
the host PC had the virus app screaming of an infection and the bozo just
ignored it.  And here I have the prez asking my tech how to turn off the
firewall...been working on locking down his TabletPC so neither guy can
futz with it.

Maybe the judge should have just hugged the guy to make him stop his bad
boy behavior.  We all need a hug, right?  Even OBL.  Uh huh.

- Richard

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