sweintz
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join:2002-03-01
Hamden, CT
| reply to Omega
Re: Why change it?
said by Omega  :When someone steals your car, and uses it for additional illegal activities, are you punished for it? Depending on circumstances, sometimes the answer to that is YES. If negligence on the part of the car owner can be proven (ie: he left it unlocked in a high crime neighborhood) the owner can be held liable in civil court.
putting a PC on the internet without understanding the security risks (AV needed, firewall needed, etc) is negligent, IMO.
at the very least, qwest should be suspending the accounts of infected users until they clean them up. $5 a spam is a bit much for something unintentional. But they SHOULD suspend on first offense, terminate on second offense for infected PC's. |
