Story: ISP forced to take action on viruses

Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 18 March 2004, 7:13 PM)

i object very strongly to the following statement within this report:-

"Nowadays, a person sending spam is Granny, and she has no idea she's doing it," said Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher at Lurhq, a corporate security company. "

while i agree that there are some elderly people,and not all female either, that havent a clue what they are doing, i am increasingly finding that the elderly want to and do learn as much as they can about what they can do with their pc's and how to protect them.i find the above remark both sexist and ageist.we are not the senile lot some of you younger people think nor are we women as stupid as that excerpt implies.i have however come across a lot of youngsters who think they know it all,who seem to think that having virus protection and firewalls is all they need to do.being vigilent with emails/and putting unknowns onto their messenger lists isnt neccessary as far as they are concerned,the attitude is,with the antivirus/firewall protection they have got there isn't a thing they can do otherwise to stop a virus/worm if it gets through.and, at the risk of being called sexist here myself,most of those sort are young men.so please,less of the sexist/ageist talk?anyone of any age/sex can be lax in these things and frequently are.oh btw....i am a 61yr old "granny" who constantly tries to keep herself and her friends upto date with av information/has recently completed 2 websites on yorkshire and her family tree/learnt about using graphics/making web pages/html etc in the last 5 months.and i am not on my own as there is a group of us from 45-80 doing the same things.