Simon

Cumbria

IT

Perhaps it's time to stop the bull***t comments that users aren't to blame !

Ultimately, it comes down to this : there are lots of infected machines connected to teh internet<period>. If they weren't infected or weren't connected, then they wouldn't be a problem - so perhaps it's time to stop whining that users can't be expected to understand such details ?

As an analogy, we don't expect every driver to demonstrate that they can change their oil and service their brakes before we give them a licence - we expect them either to know, or to go to a garage (or a friend) who does know.

Take a defective car on the highway and it's the drivers responsibility to make sure it's legal and safe. Take a computer on the internet highway and people seem to think that the owner & driver should not be expected to know anything past "where's the ON button".

So how about an equivalent of the "3 points and £60 for having a bald tyre" when found in charge of a computer that is acting in a botnet ?