I agree with you Rob but I worry about some of my friends and relatives, they are like young children playing ball on a busy street. The ease at which my mother-in-law (God love her) is able to logs on to the Internet every night is a tribute to the process of technology to the masses. But how do I explain a?Phising exploits? to her. That the website at which she is seeing is not actually what she is seeing?

I finally made her understand that by forwarding emails to everyone in her address book about, ?Receiving money back from Microsoft,? really only adds those email address in the long run to a spammers data base.

In this case, knowledge is also an additional fix but how do we educate our newbie masses?

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