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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1108248" data-attributes="member: 114717">The average user thinks that security is software and there are security software publishers that pander to that user ignorance. It is a big reason why the malware problem will never be solved. Security software is like putting a bandaid onto a broken leg and saying &quot;OK. There you go. You are fixed.&quot;The security software publishing industry has poisoned the global population by preying upon users&#039; ignorance. That&#039;s what has happened over the past decades.Average users, without knowledge, need way more than just a security software. Their systems need to be managed. By that I mean there are lots of things that average users need to be prohibited doing.I have seen this always wonders what AV-C is up to? I have never experienced a false positive with F-Secure. But every single time that AV-C does one of their rounds of testing, they must have specially crafted files that they throw at F-Secure (and the others) and F-Secure detects something.False Positives are no big deal. They are blown way out of proportion. The reason they are promoted as a huge deal is that the end user lacks the knowledge to know what to do. Going back to Square 1: Security is not software. It is a process (that involves people and those people need to have the knowledge).Instead security software publishers promote and perpetuate user ignorance, and snowball societies into never making &quot;security through knowledgeable and proficient users&quot; a priority.One need not be a 50 year IT Pro to be proficient enough to handle most security issues.The other side of the coin is that people are people, and they will unravel security no matter what to do what they want to do. That is why devices need to lock users out of being able to do almost all of what they can do today on a Windows system. Their systems need to be managed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1108248, member: 114717"] The average user thinks that security is software and there are security software publishers that pander to that user ignorance. It is a big reason why the malware problem will never be solved. Security software is like putting a bandaid onto a broken leg and saying "OK. There you go. You are fixed." The security software publishing industry has poisoned the global population by preying upon users' ignorance. That's what has happened over the past decades. Average users, without knowledge, need way more than just a security software. Their systems need to be managed. By that I mean there are lots of things that average users need to be prohibited doing. I have seen this always wonders what AV-C is up to? I have never experienced a false positive with F-Secure. But every single time that AV-C does one of their rounds of testing, they must have specially crafted files that they throw at F-Secure (and the others) and F-Secure detects something. False Positives are no big deal. They are blown way out of proportion. The reason they are promoted as a huge deal is that the end user lacks the knowledge to know what to do. Going back to Square 1: Security is not software. It is a process (that involves people and those people need to have the knowledge). Instead security software publishers promote and perpetuate user ignorance, and snowball societies into never making "security through knowledgeable and proficient users" a priority. One need not be a 50 year IT Pro to be proficient enough to handle most security issues. The other side of the coin is that people are people, and they will unravel security no matter what to do what they want to do. That is why devices need to lock users out of being able to do almost all of what they can do today on a Windows system. Their systems need to be managed. [/QUOTE]

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