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Originally posted by the new JR Jansen:
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Originally posted by Melusine:
I think in many cases it's those people's own fault for being stupid enough not to take virus precautions
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That's the excuse of a thief. If somebody breaks into my home and get's cought, would they get away with an excuse like that ? [/QUOTE]Nonsense, that's twisting my words. I didn't say anything like that - what I said was that (to use your analogy) if you leave your front door wide open in a dodgy neighbourhood and then go on a holiday, whoever it was that robbed your house empty (because that will undoubtedly have happened) should of course be arrested for thieving, BUT you'd have been pretty damn stupid yourself too, so it would have been your fault in the sense that you could have taken sensible precautions which you didn't. I'm not saying stupid people *cause* their computers to be infected - it's the viruses and their makers who cause it. But if you go around opening and running attached files from strangers who write you emails in Spanish even though you don't speak Spanish, then it *is* your fault that you get infected by viruses more often than other (sensible) people.