Millions
of computer users suffered billions of dollars
in losses
from real attacks experienced
over the Internet. Most of the damages
were caused
by fast
-
moving computer viruses and
worms that traveled by email, or
that involved
automated exploitation of flaws in network
service programs
.
Computer security professionals had long maintained that
education
was the
most effective
way
to secure end users
’ computers
.
Some
people have revised their opinions, and are now
putting their
hopes for strong end user
computer security in
technology.
The reason is that computer systems are simply too
complex
for
most end users to make rational security decisions