Friday, July 30, 2004
Street-smart artist foils virus
Check out this column by Wayne Rash of Infoworld magazine. Someone in the magazine's art department questioned a suspicious email attachment and prevented what would have been a lot of damage.
All the self-defense instructors teach that your first and most important defense, more decisive than pepper spray, firearms or karate, is alertness. It's just the same with computers. That art department employee had paid attention to the news and followed his hunch that something wasn't right. It's the same kind of feeling that makes us cross the street to avoid some people.
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All the self-defense instructors teach that your first and most important defense, more decisive than pepper spray, firearms or karate, is alertness. It's just the same with computers. That art department employee had paid attention to the news and followed his hunch that something wasn't right. It's the same kind of feeling that makes us cross the street to avoid some people.