Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
The average user will say "OOH! SHINY!! [clicky-click]" when offered content promising either dancing hampsters or pop stars wearing less clothing than appropriate. Any security model that doesn't allow for this is doomed to failure.
Yep. I've already told the story about my niece a few months back -- right before my eyes. The solution that's worked so far, keeping her machine clean for months: Norton AV can detect every attempt to write to an executable, and it turns off the Windows screen, takes over the display, flashes a big warning screen, and asks whether it should continue. That causes the startled niece to go running to momma to call uncle. Whatever we use has to be flashier than dancing hamsters.... Of course, anything that happens too often will just get the OK option selected anyway. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32