OT Malware scanners fail; Train users to minimize the risk

[Dazed_75]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Technomage <technomage.hawke at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/28/malware_user_training/
>
> I, too have been noticing a significant increase in troubled machines
> lately
> (including OS X, Linux and of course the usual Microsoft suspects).
> Something
> to keep an eye on guys!
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Good article.  I must note, however, while he recommends training, he gives
no sources for same.  Obviously, many things should be well known to his
immediate audience but I could wish he had included some links or material
itself.

For example, he recommends no-script or an equivalent and flat out states
the user needs training in its use.  I count myself among them.  I used it
for a while and got so tired of it asking whether some totally unspecified
script should be allowed to run that I gave it up.  Maybe there was some way
to get information on which to base a decision but I never found it.  Super
tool made useless for lack of information!

-- 
Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it always to be kept alive.
 - Thomas Jefferson
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