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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 65228" data-source="post: 702986">About 8-9 years ago I could go onto Miniclip to play some online 8 ball pool on an awful family PC as a young kid and finish my 8 ball pool session with 13 active infections, most of which an AV scanner would be &quot;unable&quot; to clean, and usually a majority being backdoors or browser hijackers. That&#039;s what happens when you&#039;re click-happy and know absolutely nothing about security/staying safe online - and in my case back then, I would have instantly hit that download button if there was an advertisement saying I had to do so and run a download without thinking twice.Little Johnny wants to play some Miniclip but has to get by 30 page re-directions to explicit websites because of active infections, whilst the PC lags because of other active infections. That little Johnny was once me 8-9 years ago.If the attacks have been doubling/tripling each year since those times, and more and more people trying to develop malicious software with the intention of being smarter and generating revenue more so than general and aimless destruction, then I imagine that more people pretend they do not become infected due to silly mistakes more often than those who admit to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deleted member 65228, post: 702986"] About 8-9 years ago I could go onto Miniclip to play some online 8 ball pool on an awful family PC as a young kid and finish my 8 ball pool session with 13 active infections, most of which an AV scanner would be "unable" to clean, and usually a majority being backdoors or browser hijackers. That's what happens when you're click-happy and know absolutely nothing about security/staying safe online - and in my case back then, I would have instantly hit that download button if there was an advertisement saying I had to do so and run a download without thinking twice. Little Johnny wants to play some Miniclip but has to get by 30 page re-directions to explicit websites because of active infections, whilst the PC lags because of other active infections. That little Johnny was once me 8-9 years ago. If the attacks have been doubling/tripling each year since those times, and more and more people trying to develop malicious software with the intention of being smarter and generating revenue more so than general and aimless destruction, then I imagine that more people pretend they do not become infected due to silly mistakes more often than those who admit to it. [/QUOTE]

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