-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-07-11 at 20:11 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 11 July 2008 06:33:20 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
Serves them right! Next time they wont be so credulous :-P
Carlos,
why you believe that people would not repeat mistake. Wrap it in another paper and you have new present. Opening it, is danger, but how do you know in advance.
:-) Some of them will learn. It is not possible to protect against user stupidity, and the bad guys are very clever at exploiting it. Currently, I receive a lot of scams disguised as work-at-home-and-make-a-fortune, and I'm sure many souls fell prey to them, as unemployment is high here. The other popular scam is get-yourself-a-nice-wife from Russia, with a non-provocative photo of a 20-30-something girl. The v. medicine seems to be declining, same as the bank manager with a big sum to share with you from somewhere in Africa. Unfortunately, it is next to impossible to make the computer protect those users. It is best they get hit with some mild innocuous thing that acts as a vaccine for the next time.
Let me repeat: Most of the current Linux users are not average computer users.
True. And I hope it stays that way for many years :-P Or at least, I hope they are clever enough to hire me to setup their systems instead of some nephew ;-) )
Alone, fact that someone came on idea that Windows is not the only thing can drive computer shows more than average understanding of computers.
I guess it is time to open page on wiki with topics like Internet Browsing (or how to browse using Linux safe practices), Using Email (or average Linux email setup) etc. We don't need it, but many does.
Probably good idea :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIePsMtTMYHG2NR9URAoHLAJ94ATw8o8f4RrOqcXQ1WPF8X2DLxACfcENb LNzoqngcB9TpWu+ta5jbJ+8= =IyPH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----