As a senior citizen I see lots of older people getting their first computers to communicate with their children and grand children. Within a month or two I'll get a call from them with the old complain " my home page has changed and I can't change back" and "my computer is so slow". I will spend an average of 3 hours cleaning and explaining what happened and how to protect their computers from the garbage that lurks on the internet. Usually, during my explainations, I'll see wondering expressions on their faces and I know they don't understand what I'm trying to tell them. Another problem I run into with the grand parents is " well my granddaughter
said it was OK to install Kazaa". Many kids don't understand computer security issues any better than their grand parents do. It's time for programs to educate people of all ages concerning the security issue they face while using the internet. Our schools, universities and businesses need to hold classes and seminars concerning security issues and the internet. People assume that a new computer right out of the box will be protected. They're very upset(and rightly so) when after a few hours of operation thier computers are loaded with virii, trojans and malware. Education is the answer, better educated computer users will mean less profit for the adware, spyware and trojan writers and less chance of virus infected computers.