[SpamCop-List] Re: Legal Question

[Miss Betsy]

"Pete Stephenson" <pete at heypete.com> wrote in message
news:pete-84A6C9.12165322112004 at news.cesmail.net...
> In article <cntgrq$d13$1 at news.spamcop.net>,
>  "Porpoise" <porpoise1954 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Never mind the fact that there're millions out there without
SP2, there're
> > millions more out there that are even still on W95/W98 with 486
processors.
> > Not *all* parts of the world are as affluent as we are - which
probably goes
> > some way to explaining why most of the spam is coming from the
particular
> > countries it seems to be coming from these days.
><snip>
> Even considering that, there are plenty of security, anti-virus,
and
> firewall programs that will run just fine on Windows 95.
Unfortunately,
> people like my grandparents (who still use Windows 95 on an
ancient PC)
> have no idea that they would need to protect themselves. It's not
that
> they're stupid (my grandfather was a surgeon in his younger
years),
> they're simply uninformed.
>
> Education of the users, on behalf of the provider, combined with
rapid
> and decisive action against zombied computers (there was a
discussion of
> this a week or so ago in the forums here, I can dig it up if
desired)
> would likely help out quite a bit...I hope. :-P

Grandparents come from a generation of 'why upgrade if this works
fine?'  - I still have Win98.  Also, I don't have time to upgrade
on a modem.

Miss Betsy