Peter Lewis

Switzerland

Networking

Although I can understand the wrath of those who would hang, draw, and quarter 16 year-old virus writers, don't these people also display an appalling ignorance of their own computer systems? Where were their backups? Were their anti-virus systems up-to-date?

This lack of knowledge displayed by the average computer-user, both at home and in business, is one of the forces that feed the virus and spam 'industries'. In a way, it's the very reliability of today's systems that makes people tend to assume that 'nothing ever goes wrong'. Bring back read errors & head crashes, I say. At least they ensured that the backup & recovery systems were tested from time to time.

'Things ain't like they used to be' mode OFF.