On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
According to an AT&T sponsored survey, 78% of executives admitted to opening attachments from unknown senders in the last year, 29% used their own name or birthday as a "secure" password, 17% accessed the company network in a public place and didn't log out, 9% informally shared a network password with someone outside of the company.
surprised? if you don't teach the baby the consequences then they continue to behave badly. I suppose it IS a little bit tough to tell the executive: "Bad Exec!! NO COOKIE!!!" or the equivalent in execu-speak :(
I was looking at a friends PC, her mother uses it and she's a bit of a technophobe... I was upset that it hadnt had any of the windows updates installed since last time I looked at the PC a year ago even tho windows was popping up all the time pleading to be updated!
I attempted to explain the whys and what fors and was surprised at her reaction.. she still didnt want to run the updates even tho she now understood what they do. 2 reasons:
1) she's overwhelmed by the amount of things that pop up at you, ask you to click on them, tell you theyre an email from microsoft etc etc
2) she "only uses the pc for web browsing, if it gets infected theres no harm that can be done"
So how do you argue with that?
There is a very simple way of demonstrating the problem of viruses on her PC to her. Install a modem in the PC and connect it to the phone line. It won't be long till she gets one of the the viruses that dial a long distance location. Her next phone bill will demonstrate to her why having a clean PC is important. This has worked for my in-law. He was the one who plugged the modem back into the phone line after I unplugged it and told him no to have it plugged in. K