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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 775977">I beg to differ.A computer illiterate person doesn&#039;t have an adblocker or decent security installed, does lots of web searching, looking for something online, ends up on a site like CNET for example, ends up clicking on &quot;Download here&quot; - thinking they are downloading what they were searching for - and ends up with &quot;stuff&quot; installed.Social engineering and happy clickings gets the computer illiterate to do a whole bunch of stuff that they just shouldn&#039;t do. Half the time all they can say is &quot;I remember clicking a lot. There were windows I didn&#039;t understand.&quot;I&#039;ve seen this literally hundreds, if not thousands, of times. The number of home user systems I&#039;ve disinfected numbers at least in the many hundreds.The worst are families with children where the parents know basically zero about computers and just let the children run riot. Then the parent asks &quot;Where&#039;d they learn that ?&quot; and &quot;How&#039;d this happen ?&quot;Anyhow... the security you describe, a computer illiterate person can never handle it. Many of the people I see on the home user front can barely use Windows. Only security soft geeks here can grasp any security that requires tweaking, and even then most don&#039;t want any parts of it because they want default allow to tell them what to do. Unfortunately for them, it just don&#039;t work that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 775977"] I beg to differ. A computer illiterate person doesn't have an adblocker or decent security installed, does lots of web searching, looking for something online, ends up on a site like CNET for example, ends up clicking on "Download here" - thinking they are downloading what they were searching for - and ends up with "stuff" installed. Social engineering and happy clickings gets the computer illiterate to do a whole bunch of stuff that they just shouldn't do. Half the time all they can say is "I remember clicking a lot. There were windows I didn't understand." I've seen this literally hundreds, if not thousands, of times. The number of home user systems I've disinfected numbers at least in the many hundreds. The worst are families with children where the parents know basically zero about computers and just let the children run riot. Then the parent asks "Where'd they learn that ?" and "How'd this happen ?" Anyhow... the security you describe, a computer illiterate person can never handle it. Many of the people I see on the home user front can barely use Windows. Only security soft geeks here can grasp any security that requires tweaking, and even then most don't want any parts of it because they want default allow to tell them what to do. Unfortunately for them, it just don't work that way. [/QUOTE]

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