TeMerc
join:2004-01-22
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to itssaturday
Re: Is VMware the answer to spyware
said by itssaturday :
So your point is to focus the blame on the users rather than hunt down the people who create these nasty infection? Not everyone is interested in knowing the technical of computer.
If it's a simple method to stop further infection, I see nothing wrong with it.
I don't think anyone is saying the user is to blame here, per se. It's a matter of educating users with simple instructions, much in the same way you teach people abut nearly anything. If you just hand someone a PC and give them virtually no basic instruction, they will have troubles, much the same if you just threw a set of keys to someone and expected them to drive a car with ease and no damage to the yard, house neighbors fence, so forth. Give them some basic instructions, like a drivers ed class, they can maneuver the car and drive reasonably well. Now, give the same user a hi perf driving school lesson(obvious price issue), and the same person can be come a prolific driver handling all sorts of potential troubles.
The more users can learn, with basic operation and use of general PCs, the better off they will be.
Trying to hunt down the creators of most of the invasive malwares is near impossible, especially if they are based off shire, which most are.
The few that do get brought to court will eventually pop up again under a different guise and start all over again. In most cases they have made so much money by illicit installs and unethical behaviour, that the temptation is to go back for more. |
