[TheForge] Klez problem

[Terry L. Ridder]

hello;

after we have asked an end-user numerous times
to secure their machine/machines and they continue
to ignore our requests we have basically two choices:

0. do something else
1. do nothing

when an end-user has been told they have a security issue
and they choose to do nothing about it, they have now
become part of the problem. we could just terminate their
service but they just go somewhere else and still be the
same security problem. the point is to get the end-user
to be responsible for their machine/machines security.

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Ralph E Douglass wrote:

"Terry L. Ridder" wrote:
terrylr> 
terrylr> hello;
terrylr> 
terrylr> actually, we are talking with the lawyers about
terrylr> starting to sue the person who owns the computer
terrylr> that the klez e-mails are coming from. perhaps
terrylr> when enough end-users are sued they will start
terrylr> complaining to good old bill or better yet even
terrylr> start suing bill.
terrylr> 
terrylr> the author/authors of the klez virus need to be
terrylr> caught and convicted of computer crimes and sent
terrylr> to prison.
terrylr>

ralph>
ralph> I can see sueing the writers of the virus, but why sue a business or
ralph> businessman for a virus he did not do? I am afraid I am not part of the
ralph> "New American" way of sueing everyone. Place the writers in jail and
ralph> eventually the size of the problem goes away. As for MS and Gates, just
ralph> have folks not buy.
ralph> But then once MS is not a dominate program the hackers will just write
ralph> programs for thte largest used program. Folks seem to think that Macs
ralph> and unix boxes are immune to virus programs. Not true. It is just that
ralph> the payoff is not there as there are way fewer unix machines or Macs
ralph> than MS based machines.
ralph> 
ralph> Ralph
ralph> 
ralph> 

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Terry L. Ridder ><>