 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium join:2000-09-05 Dallas, TX | Like the thousands of clueless computer users that get infected with worms or spamming zombie trojans, and then try to infect others unknowingly?
One of the regular posters to the Security forum, blitzenzeus, has as his posting tag "the biggest error is sitting in front of the keyboard". These are the kinds of users that create chaos by accident, even though they don't know what they're doing... -- "Kayura or Badamon, whichever you are, you should know that I will never give up this battle. By the will of the Ancient, I shall succeed!" - Shuten (Anubis) from the Ronin Warriors. |
 | Viruses and spam depend on a functional network to propagate. The idea that they will so overwhelm the network to make it unusuable is just doom and gloom.
ISPs filter emails. Programs on a client filter viruses and spyware. We will continue to filter data to keep up with the propagation of data that we don't want. People communicating with computers on a network is not ever going to go away except for maybe something better. |