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<blockquote data-quote="Andrezj" data-source="post: 1021972" data-attributes="member: 97580">for non-security minded\geek user, default allow antivirus\internet security suite is a necessity and the absolute best solution for themsuch users are best served by automation that makes decisions for them (instead of relying upon the user to make a decision or exert efforts to figure things out)with this reality, security software vendors cannot keep their protections current with the fast pace of new attack methods, variations on old attacks, malware polymorphism, etcnot only that, but vendors do not get their protections quite right 100% of the time and\or the user will unravel the protection - especially decision-making by non-security geeks and deliberate unsafe user behaviorsa security geek that thinks can only reach one conclusion after critically analyzing all the facts about security software - the only solution that provides the greatest level of security:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">the microsoft enterprise method of blocking everything not vetted by default</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">applying least privilege and least functionality system-wide</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">blocking known vulnerable processes by default</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">do not allow users to install software</li>
</ul>it is absurd that the default configuration of windows is an administrator account, and that is the account that all home device users typically usefurthermore, it is absurd that relatively few home users know how to configure a standard user accountthe users that need the most stringent security to stay safe, are exactly the ones who do not get itthe paradigm of &quot;users that want to use stuff&quot; and doing what they want on digital device is obsolete by any rational, common sense measureyet this will never change</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrezj, post: 1021972, member: 97580"] for non-security minded\geek user, default allow antivirus\internet security suite is a necessity and the absolute best solution for them such users are best served by automation that makes decisions for them (instead of relying upon the user to make a decision or exert efforts to figure things out) with this reality, security software vendors cannot keep their protections current with the fast pace of new attack methods, variations on old attacks, malware polymorphism, etc not only that, but vendors do not get their protections quite right 100% of the time and\or the user will unravel the protection - especially decision-making by non-security geeks and deliberate unsafe user behaviors a security geek that thinks can only reach one conclusion after critically analyzing all the facts about security software - the only solution that provides the greatest level of security: [LIST] [*]the microsoft enterprise method of blocking everything not vetted by default [*]applying least privilege and least functionality system-wide [*]blocking known vulnerable processes by default [*]do not allow users to install software [/LIST] it is absurd that the default configuration of windows is an administrator account, and that is the account that all home device users typically use furthermore, it is absurd that relatively few home users know how to configure a standard user account the users that need the most stringent security to stay safe, are exactly the ones who do not get it the paradigm of "users that want to use stuff" and doing what they want on digital device is obsolete by any rational, common sense measure yet this will never change [/QUOTE]

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