Bill Thompson talks a lot of sense. I’ve read a number of the things he’s written on his personal site and in the columns he writes for the BBC Technology section – some of which are the same and I was particularly impressed by this piece on Computer Viruses and Herd Immunity.

I completely share his disgust at the attitudes of people who refuse to make any attempt to protect their PCs against viri and worms – either through stupidity, tightfistedness or lazyness. It’s just not acceptable.

Having provided tech support for large numbers of my year at uni recently, including dissinfecting and protecting more than half of them when Sasser went rampant, this is partly me being selfish of my own time.

But, as I’ve said before, too many people are only willing to take any action after the worst has already happened – and when it comes to these things spreading, that is always too late.