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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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Cost to be a victim 2004-04-29
Ed
Perhapse you captured some of the problem in mentioning cost. Not only does it cost the user nothing to become infected, but it costs them something to avoid infection. How do you justify to an end user that they need to spend the $60 for a firewall/anti-virus package? I know there are free firew...

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