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Stop Being a Victim
Tim Mullen, 2004-04-27

An influential newspaper columnist blames "contemptuous techies" for allowing users to fall prey to viruses and spyware. But don't some users deserve a little contempt?

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Stop Being a Victim 2004-04-28
Clownface
Consider the steps users had to take to infect themselves with some of the recent netsky virii - use a password to open a zip file, run the enclosed executable - these are not trivial skills. I know plenty of people who have no idea what a zip file is, let alone have WinZip or other Zip client insta...

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