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Story: Viruses can be tamed - by upgrading users' brains

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If we upgraded "users' " brains we'd be a whole lot better off.

Just as we don't rely on people just not speeding or driving with alcohol, we shouldn't be relying on users being smart with their computers.

I have users here who have studied law for 10 years yet come to me to get their Windows bar realigned when it "completely out of itself" moved to the top of their screen.

The entire world would be a much much better place if everybody could rely on each other to do the sensible things (we probably wouldn't even need laws).
This is not news, this is a well-known frustration of every sysadmin.

Besides, on the problem of (not) patching: I've patched our Windows servers dozens of times, but each and every time I do it, Microsoft turns out to have a few little undocumented suprises up it's sleeve, twice (I know of) even resulting in our entire industry not being able to do our jobs correctly for weeks, and always resulting in some functionality changed or abolished.

So our Operating Systems need to be secure and reliable, but so do our patches, Bill.

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