Sounds like a home user's question I know but I think it has wider implications. Consider the following real life examples

1) Teenage girl receives an email telling her not to IM with [email protected] because 'she is a virus'

2) Email sent to teenage hotmail users telling them to send 20 emails or have their hotmail account cut off

3) High school has to implement real time monitoring and alert because the kids are so inventive in bypassing the contents filtering

4) Father (who works in computers I kid you not) warns his daughter not to go online because of 'hackers'

5) children downloading and swapping P2P with no idea that they are doing anything illegal until their parents get a fine dropped through the post

Do I detect an advocacy campaign somewhere in here - which I suspect we should be involved in both to control the fud factor and to promote real and realistic measures for child protection online, both legal and technical?