14 Mar
2002
14 Mar
'02
10:15 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
"Social engineering" is still a primary
problem. Twice I have received
e-mail that purported to be from Microsoft with a 170K attachment
(Q216309.EXE). It said to run that to patch security holes. yeah,
right. MICROS~1 does NOT mail unsolicited security patches.
Bullheaded users are even worse.
I quit a pretty lucrative small-office IS-management contract 2 years
ago because I was absolutely unable to get the [otherwise intelligent]
owner of the firm to quit executing EVERY joke program that hit her
inbox. You can see why the contract was lucrative, eh? But I couldn't
deal with the frustration anymore.
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