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Ben Goodger wrote: > Wrong - the computer is a tool to be used by the user, not the other > way around. If you were under the control of the computer, you would > complain to Microsoft that Vista isn't as good as you thought. Quite a few seem to be :) > > If the software is good encoiugh, it should protect itself. > > > Yes, but it can't protect itself from a user it is programmed to obey, > instructing it to commit suicide. 'Nature [and technology] sides with the hidden flaw' - Murphy's Law. In this case the flaw is hidden 12 inches away on the chair in front of the keyboard. > I fail to see how a computer error can be in ordinary english. If the > developers want you to know, for instance, that you've got a corrupt > file allocation table in your windows partition they aren't going to > say "one of your disk drives is buggered." Or that classic B/W movie 'One Of Our Files Is Missing' involving the poor little packets having to hide from the evil virii and make their way by fishing boat back over the English Channel from Holland..... Sorry.. my dried frog pills were where? Seriously though I agree. What is plainer than: 'This unknown program which is probably a virus mate wants Internet access, shall I let it?' At which point the clueless user clicks 'Yes' then uninstalls the antivirus because it's interrupting their chatter on MSN *long suffering irritated groan*... and no I'm not making this up, there are many examples of similar computer suicide. IMHO it doesn't matter what the messages say. mosy users won't read them anyway - they just blindly click 'Yes' and go back to what they were doing. Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html