UIS has the worst advice
Posted by: Will Sommer in News, Vox Populi, tags: Internet, Macs, UIS, VirusThere are a lot of good reasons to have a Mac–better wireless access, better design, or Final Cut Pro. There is also one awful, lazy reason: being afraid of viruses. Before I came to college, three recent Mac converts insisted that their computers would keep them safe from viruses. The thing is, you don’t need to be a Mac to keep from getting a virus–you just need to not be an idiot.
University Information Services, the people behind Georgetown’s internet and email, thinks we’re just that kind of idiots, judging by an email they sent out today with internet safety tips. Most of the stuff is common sense, like having a good password. But check out what the Luddites in UIS recommend about links:
Never click on links sent to you via e-mail or IM. These links can take to you to a site that may put your computer at risk for virus attacks or a data breach. Just delete the e-mail or cancel the message immediately!
Who taught them internet, the Video Professor?
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UIS may not be terribly clear in what they mean by that statement, but the underlying advice is in fact very sound. Links that point to somewhere other than they appear to are brutally easy to create. So easy, in fact, that it created the internet phenomenon “rickrolling” (see Wikipedia).
Nevertheless, UIS is not my source for computer use guidance. I abide by the rules: http://www.internetrules.info/
Learn em and live em.
I thought that internet rules link was a rickroll.
Thanks for this. Just subscribed.