Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Wed 13th Aug 2003 16:59 UTC
I am a "Technologist", a Technology enthusiast that is usually the one that is called should a major catastrophe strike an end user. My saga of computer rescues becomes a plot that is ever so thickening, if not only for the fact that's it's becoming incredibly easy for hackers and malicious code writers these days to invade personal property to find, seek, and destroy. Each year, virus and hacker threats increase, and in addition the damage trail left behind is something of a problem. Not to forget, a majority of "PC Panic" cases I've come across are often times the same common, "major" problem.
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well, similar discussion was help on one czech forum. Some ppl were nearly laughing and calling users lamers, because they don't know that they should block port X or Y by default, use firewall etc. I can even see one hero here suggesting buying hardware router.
Well, excuse me, I am at least slightly advanced PC users and yet installing and configuring hw router would be new job for me. Now - should we really blame average users? Should we tell them - don't use your PC, if you don't know, what does TCP/IP, firewall etc. term mean? That sounds plain stupid to me.
I think that in today's complex sw systems age, OS companies should think first, release afterwards. MS surely invests millions in UI ergonomics experts, yet I still have to see single dialog asking user plain and stupid - do you understand one of following terms? - firewall, tcp/ip port, etc. ... if the answer is not, I would enable/install firewall protection by default.
I am starting to think that MS has to know it, but it somehow has to fit their marketing machinery, that the word Windows is covered in the media from time to time, because of mass vulnerability attacks, which could be prevented by more sophisticated OS installs ...
-pekr-