BBC fails to understand mens rea

[James Firth]

Charles Lindsey wrote:
> Moreover, an alternative would be to inform the owners of the infected
> machines, perhaps by overlaying their screensavers as the BBC did. It
> would be much harder to screw up some simple task like that.

Except where someone had paid for their screensaver or wallpaper then
alleges that the anti-virus company was responsible for a material loss
(whereas we all know the computer owner should have backed up, should have
ensured better anti-malware precautions, yada, yada...)

Personally I would say the least-risk option is to disable the bot, i.e. not
disinfect the machine entirely but disable the network elements, as you
first suggested.


James Firth