the clueful have already figured out how to treat attachments, for
example, but the clueless have not (they only worry about ones that say
"i love you" or crap like that)... eventually there will be so many
different 'attackments' in the public consciousness that little light
bulbs will go on over a bunch of people's heads...
That's what the ISPs figured a few years back but it did not work out
that way. So for purposes of avoinding liability they started
implementing filters which keep the clueless from causing any more
harm. Try sending yourself a test virus like eicar. If your ISP is
filtering, it won't go thru.
BTW, be sure to include among the clueless those people who work at
Microsoft. The buffer overrun vulnerability was known in the UNIX
world literally years before it was exploited on IIS web servers.
We have the clueless at MS to thank for DoS extortion - and preventing
me from running a legitimate web server (RoadRunner blocked port 80
after the buffer overrun attacks became prominent).
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge