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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 707764">If that in some cases.. I always illustrate this with my father in-law.. He spent weeks thinking about and researching what blinds to put in a spare bedroom they were remodeling. He talked to dozens of people, had a designer out, spend hours online. He even asked my wife and I a couple times about our thoughts on blinds, who installed ours, what we thought of them.. My wife got tired of it and said &quot;Dad, I paid someone to come in and do it, that&#039;s their specialty, I didn&#039;t spend more than a few hours on the issue..&quot;.. But security? He heads to Radioshack for a $19 router, spends 15 seconds googling for a free AV and calls it a day. He keeps adding more and more IoT to his home but never spent more than the $19 and 15 seconds on security. Pathetic.I do remember the old days where you tossed an AV on your computer and called it a day. I think at most I would run BOCLEAN or Pest Patrol scans here and there, but the basic AV did the job. These days it&#039;s a vastly more dangerous landscape with blended environments that drag along blended threats. A guy I know has 83 IoT devices on his home and 9 &#039;Google Dot&#039;s&#039;, even in the bathroom. I asked what his security was and he said &quot;ASUS Router and AVG&quot;. Speechless. Here&#039;s a guy with a LOT of money and some decent expertise, and he has a free security solution and cheap router protecting his home that is 100% wired for surveillance? What a joke.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 707764"] If that in some cases.. I always illustrate this with my father in-law.. He spent weeks thinking about and researching what blinds to put in a spare bedroom they were remodeling. He talked to dozens of people, had a designer out, spend hours online. He even asked my wife and I a couple times about our thoughts on blinds, who installed ours, what we thought of them.. My wife got tired of it and said "Dad, I paid someone to come in and do it, that's their specialty, I didn't spend more than a few hours on the issue..".. But security? He heads to Radioshack for a $19 router, spends 15 seconds googling for a free AV and calls it a day. He keeps adding more and more IoT to his home but never spent more than the $19 and 15 seconds on security. Pathetic. I do remember the old days where you tossed an AV on your computer and called it a day. I think at most I would run BOCLEAN or Pest Patrol scans here and there, but the basic AV did the job. These days it's a vastly more dangerous landscape with blended environments that drag along blended threats. A guy I know has 83 IoT devices on his home and 9 'Google Dot's', even in the bathroom. I asked what his security was and he said "ASUS Router and AVG". Speechless. Here's a guy with a LOT of money and some decent expertise, and he has a free security solution and cheap router protecting his home that is 100% wired for surveillance? What a joke. [/QUOTE]

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