2010/2/9 Karsten Bräckelmann <guent...@rudersport.de>: > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:27 -0800, jdow wrote: >> I have a thoroughly retired and partially disabled friend I try to >> help out, such as he'll let me. (I thought I was paranoid until I >> met him...) I am slowly breaking him of the thought pattern that >> opening Internet Explorer [...] > > Being paranoid. Using IE... *boggle* > > Nope, he is definitely not paranoid enough, if he never questioned the > part about needing IE. Let alone never ever read / heard anything about > security and main-stream mom-and-pap computer usage. > > Come on, IE exploits have been all over the general news in this country > quite a few times.
Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about computers, and set in his/her ways. This, augmented by scare stories in the mass media, probably contribute to the difficulty. If I had to guess, for this friend of hers, new == deeply suspicious Kurt
