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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 109138" data-source="post: 1080301"><p>That's quite the rollercoaster ride of "you cant protect users from themselves".</p><p></p><p>Under this same roof with me is a windows 11 laptop with nothing but default security and unlock origin in Edge and a copy of portable keepass on the desktop. Nothing is stored on the machine, everything backed up externally and accessed as needed. It is used daily here and has been set up that way for a year and a half now, no infections, breaches or data loss has occured from this machine.</p><p></p><p>That said, I want to give reason to ponder, how many folks you think out there have nothing but default security in their machines because they are not "computer" people, yet they some how get by and function. If it was seriously so prevalent out there the whole fabric of society would have came to a stand still long ago.</p><p></p><p>Fear drives most of this as I stated before, the industry does have a habit of producing it. How many products you see nagging users well before the expire date is set to hit that they will be unprotected and end up losing everything if they don't resubscribe soon. Fear keeps users here in this forum from enjoying their systems because their too busy switching security every few days then fixing their systems from all that damage it causes.</p><p></p><p>You asked about the fear installing with bad guys, well look at social engineering and most scams that nail elderly and the uninformed. The pop up on the desktop claiming the system is infected please call this number, then bring coherce into allowing someone into their system or giving up credit card information because "fear" will motivate them to do so.</p><p></p><p>Good habits and being diligent will carry users far, farther then any amount of security switching and fear ever will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 109138, post: 1080301"] That's quite the rollercoaster ride of "you cant protect users from themselves". Under this same roof with me is a windows 11 laptop with nothing but default security and unlock origin in Edge and a copy of portable keepass on the desktop. Nothing is stored on the machine, everything backed up externally and accessed as needed. It is used daily here and has been set up that way for a year and a half now, no infections, breaches or data loss has occured from this machine. That said, I want to give reason to ponder, how many folks you think out there have nothing but default security in their machines because they are not "computer" people, yet they some how get by and function. If it was seriously so prevalent out there the whole fabric of society would have came to a stand still long ago. Fear drives most of this as I stated before, the industry does have a habit of producing it. How many products you see nagging users well before the expire date is set to hit that they will be unprotected and end up losing everything if they don't resubscribe soon. Fear keeps users here in this forum from enjoying their systems because their too busy switching security every few days then fixing their systems from all that damage it causes. You asked about the fear installing with bad guys, well look at social engineering and most scams that nail elderly and the uninformed. The pop up on the desktop claiming the system is infected please call this number, then bring coherce into allowing someone into their system or giving up credit card information because "fear" will motivate them to do so. Good habits and being diligent will carry users far, farther then any amount of security switching and fear ever will. [/QUOTE]
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