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<blockquote data-quote="Cavehomme" data-source="post: 790095" data-attributes="member: 21197">I agree with what you say. As a self-employed person I do receive many PDF attachments laden with with Trojans etc. Very often they are very fresh and there might be just 1, or even none, vendors on Virustotal that can detect it yet. I can spot most these attachments a mile off anyway.If I am expecting a real courier delivery and I get an email notification pretending to be from UPS, or an invoice from a supplier I already use, I can see how the average PC user would just go straight to open it, and then they are at the mercy of how good their security software performs. I almost opened one attachment late one evening when I was very tired and rushing to finish my work before getting up early for a flight. Norton at the time picked it up and removed it.Now I don&#039;t use Norton, just WD + MWB Premium, but I feel confident enough that it can deal with just about everything, but that&#039;s also because I am aware of most risks and vectors. I&#039;ve used all the packages out there over the years, all manner of combos, they nearly always slowed things down, BSOD, horrendous registry issues, etc, etc. Simple really is better.&nbsp;&nbsp; At the end of the day, if someone is really too paranoid or anxious&nbsp; about security, they should be steered to using Mac or Linux instead of Windows, but there are risks there too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cavehomme, post: 790095, member: 21197"] I agree with what you say. As a self-employed person I do receive many PDF attachments laden with with Trojans etc. Very often they are very fresh and there might be just 1, or even none, vendors on Virustotal that can detect it yet. I can spot most these attachments a mile off anyway. If I am expecting a real courier delivery and I get an email notification pretending to be from UPS, or an invoice from a supplier I already use, I can see how the average PC user would just go straight to open it, and then they are at the mercy of how good their security software performs. I almost opened one attachment late one evening when I was very tired and rushing to finish my work before getting up early for a flight. Norton at the time picked it up and removed it. Now I don't use Norton, just WD + MWB Premium, but I feel confident enough that it can deal with just about everything, but that's also because I am aware of most risks and vectors. I've used all the packages out there over the years, all manner of combos, they nearly always slowed things down, BSOD, horrendous registry issues, etc, etc. [B][U]Simple really is better.[/U][/B] At the end of the day, if someone is really too paranoid or anxious about security, they should be steered to using Mac or Linux instead of Windows, but there are risks there too. [/QUOTE]

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