From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 21:47:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cepheus.azstarnet.com (cepheus.azstarnet.com [169.197.56.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E079237B425 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:47:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp70.mc01.dsl.fastucson.net (dhcp70.mc01.dsl.fastucson.net [169.197.8.70]) by cepheus.azstarnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00839 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:47:40 -0700 (MST) X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:01:34 -0700 (MST) From: Jeffrey X-X-Sender: jeffrey@zx750.ninja.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX In-Reply-To: <024201c19026$9709bf80$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Bob writes: > > I know people like that also. They ignore the > > broken parts and live with slow, fragmented disks > > and up to twenty five active viruses on their > > systems. The systems still run, but they limp. >Anthony replied: > It works fine for them, even if it doesn't meet your standards of > acceptance. > Unfortunately in today's computing environment allowing viruses (or worms) to run rampant on your computer does affect me. A quick look at a set of web logs on a public web server will quickly show you this. (Code Red, Nimda) So while I really don't care if a person defragments their disk, repairs broken software, uninstalls old software or even updates their drivers. I do care that they are not maintaining their machine to at least the point that they are not attacking one of my servers. Thanks, Jeffrey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message