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<blockquote data-quote="436880927" data-source="post: 824143">It depends on the user operating the machine.Click-happy users will inevitably become infected sooner or later and no AV will be able to detect 100% of malware (whether statically or dynamically) so if you put enough samples up against a default-allow AV, the AV will eventually miss samples.Home users could be much safer if more agreed to learn about how to keep themselves safe but more often than not, they aren&#039;t going to spend the necessary time becoming educated. Many are simply uninterested in learning about cyber-security. As a result of this, many remain vulnerable to malicious downloads from untrustworthy websites and malicious e-mail attachments, which I would say are the two biggest entry-points a home user should be concerned about these days (and depending on your location, infected removable media).People spreading malware can spread through e-mails very quickly because there are very large leak dumps online of people&#039;s e-mail addresses and most of them are going to still be valid. Many people who&#039;s e-mail addresses have been leaked in leak dumps available on torrent websites are not even going to be aware that it has been leaked.Unrelated to malicious software, money extortion is a relatively common attack against home users nowadays. When an attacker has a large collection of e-mail addresses, they can mass-spam warnings to innocent home users claiming that they have some sort of &quot;dirt&quot; on them and will leak it unless a payment is made. Even though many people catch onto it being fake or ask about it on online forums, many are still going to believe that they have been recorded through their web-cam and will pay the extortion money. Your AV might have an anti-spam module which might be able to thwart the aforementioned money extortion attempt through e-mail, or similar scams.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="436880927, post: 824143"] It depends on the user operating the machine. Click-happy users will inevitably become infected sooner or later and no AV will be able to detect 100% of malware (whether statically or dynamically) so if you put enough samples up against a default-allow AV, the AV will eventually miss samples. Home users could be much safer if more agreed to learn about how to keep themselves safe but more often than not, they aren't going to spend the necessary time becoming educated. Many are simply uninterested in learning about cyber-security. As a result of this, many remain vulnerable to malicious downloads from untrustworthy websites and malicious e-mail attachments, which I would say are the two biggest entry-points a home user should be concerned about these days (and depending on your location, infected removable media). People spreading malware can spread through e-mails very quickly because there are very large leak dumps online of people's e-mail addresses and most of them are going to still be valid. Many people who's e-mail addresses have been leaked in leak dumps available on torrent websites are not even going to be aware that it has been leaked. Unrelated to malicious software, money extortion is a relatively common attack against home users nowadays. When an attacker has a large collection of e-mail addresses, they can mass-spam warnings to innocent home users claiming that they have some sort of "dirt" on them and will leak it unless a payment is made. Even though many people catch onto it being fake or ask about it on online forums, many are still going to believe that they have been recorded through their web-cam and will pay the extortion money. Your AV might have an anti-spam module which might be able to thwart the aforementioned money extortion attempt through e-mail, or similar scams. [/QUOTE]

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