Get safe online

07.11.2008, 00:52

firemonkey

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/11/get-safe-online/

"How can government give helpful advice to citizens about how they can
do sensible things with their own computers to stop Internet fraud? Get
Safe Online is one initiative. Any ideas about how it can be improved?"

http://www.getsafeonline.org/

Nigel?

07.11.2008, 04:32

Malicious Toad

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:52:52 +0000, firemonkey wrote:

> [..]
>
> "How can government give helpful advice to citizens about how they can
> do sensible things with their own computers to stop Internet fraud? Get
> Safe Online is one initiative. Any ideas about how it can be improved?"
>
> [..]
>
> Nigel?

As Rowland will tell you, just get an ancient Mac and all will be well.
Virus writers are too advanced to write malware for Rowland's computer.

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