Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Ransomware Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 05:05:26 +1100 Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: <56c4fc34.6738599@nntp2.rawbw.com> <56c4fc34.6738599@nntp2.rawbw.com> <56c4fc34.6738599@nntp2.rawbw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4uJqBXm/ZOCnGbH2v3RnJwxZMZpFhYi2BDHx7bCFMRXYxMUIk= Cancel-Lock: sha1:YfeYJn9C2EHu+YCnFqyMyJ8gdlo= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:159823 "jmfbahciv" wrote in message news:PM00052C1FE3C45F6E@aca432ec.ipt.aol.com... > Morten Reistad wrote: >> In article , >> jmfbahciv wrote: >>>Michael Black wrote: >>>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Questor wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:20:49 +0100, Morten Reistad >>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> My mom was very careful with the web sites she visited, and still her >>>>>> XP >>>>>> machines had ~100 new instances of malware after a month. It got to >>>>>> be a >>>>>> quite tall order to keep cleaning. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are lots of "spelling trapdoors" out there, like micros0ft.com, > etc. >>>>> >>>>> Not letting your relatives run as admin makes cleanup a *lot* easier. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Someone locally, who is an actual system administrator, he set up Linux >>>> for his grandmother (I think it was) and kept the root account for >>>> himself. And he administers it remotely, just like at work on a big >>>> system. >>> >>>The biggest problem is that there is no documentation available for the >>>grandmother to know what she has to do to be a sysadmin. Most of the >>>docs available are addressed to a user, not an owner, of a system. >>> >>>/BAH >> >> Barb, you need to fast forward from ca 1996, when this was a valid >> complaint. >> >> Now you can pick and choose the materials you like. A lot of it is >> available on the net, and is well indexed. I usually just ask google, >> and get a list of at least a dozen good answers whenever I do. > > But you know magic incantations to acquire the answers. There is no magic incantation, just enough of a clue to use google. > Taht's the problem with search-based documentation. Nope, not with google. > There is no cookbook which tells a inexperienced > _system owner_ what his/her responsibilities are. They have no responsibilitys with desktop and laptop PCs. > The tasks required by a user are different > from the tasks required by a system owner. Not anymore. > The same is true with a network administrator and network user. Not anymore. > DEC's manuals split up these tasks with an intro for most of them. And then the world moved on and there are much better ways of doing things now.