Re: My homepage URL in IE has been hijack

From: Ken Blake, MVP (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:08:48 -0700

In news:O4ptTmNaEHA.1840@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl,
Phil <I.fix.probs@for.you> typed:

> Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

>> I agree with everything you say in principle. But in the real
>> world, the great majority of computer users are not going to
>> acquire the level of knowledge you would like them to have.
Yes,
>> they *shouldn't* rely on a program alone to protect them. But
>> most people have no other choice. Whether they don't have the
>> ability, the time, or the interest to acquire the necessary
>> knowledge doesn't matter. It's simply not going to happen.
>
> Ya unfortunately you're probably right. Although it's still
hard for
> me to understand how people can spend so much on a computer
only to
> let it "break down" all the time cause they don't know how to
> maintain or secure it.

It's not just computers. It's almost anything of a technical (or
even semi-technical) nature. How many of us properly maintain our
cars (which cost even more than computers) all the time? I know I
don't, because I don't know much about it. And the reason I don't
know much about it is that I'm really not interested. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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