Locking out viruses

The current crop of viruses is as nasty as I've seen for some time. Its potential to cause damage is staggeringly high and, for some reason, the message that viruses are a huge threat is not getting across to everyone. Often, the people supposed to be in charge of controlling the problem are part of the problem. As ICT coordinator of Stoke College in Suffolk, I view the gamut of computing skills, from the first steps of Reception/Year 1, to the advanced techniques of those studying for GCSEs in ICT - plus the range of skills displayed by adults - teachers and administrators. It is as important to educate staff about the dangers in the computing world as it is to educate the next generation, and that means virus education.

Some of today's email viruses aren't immediately obvious. If you receive all the email addressed to a school's office, for example, why wouldn't you open an email with a subject line of "Undeliverable email report", especially if it seemed to come from someone with whom the school had regular correspondence?

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