BBC's Click programme and internet security

[Jon Wilcox]

Hi,

By now, many of you will have heard about or seen this week's edition of Click, broadcast on the BBC News Channel. The special looked at PC vulnerabilty to botnet attacks, and is beginning to get both positive and negative attention.

The IT Zone of UKBF's cousin community, AccountingWEB, ran a piece on the Click special and included opinions on the Beeb's actions: http://tinyurl.com/d6kbnh

(http://tinyurl.com/d6kbnh)Has the programme affected your own approach to internet security, and do you think the BBC did the right thing by producing a special on the ease of which infected PCs can be used maliciously?

Thanks

Jon Wilcox
Technology correspondent, Sift Media

[ken_uk]

Its already been discussed on this forum recently

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=102299

[Conrad]

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