From: "Karsten Bräckelmann" <guent...@rudersport.de>
Sent: Tuesday, 2010/February/09 14:40
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.
Even with FireFox he calls THAT connecting to the Internet.
And for the type of applications he wants his best bet is Windows,
sadly enough. And, predictably, he's infected. He and I are paranoid
different ways. I am rather careful about my browsing and my system's
still clean. I got nailed ONCE so far - that's from being online since
the 80s. That was during an install. I simply started over with a full
format. Since then - negativum perspirium. And that is with using IE
and (mostly) FireFox on my part. Safe browsing is the key.
{^_-}
