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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 776013">My statements are based upon hundreds of typical users. No one is educating them. They buy a PC and use it without direction. That is a typical user. And they absolutely cannot handle Windows security on their own.You educated the people you are talking about on IT security. That in itself makes them not typical users. By my definition they are computer literate because they have 1) had instruction and 2) adhere to it.I can guarantee you that the typical users that I observe, except for a few cases, would not be able to handle your guides. Typical users generally don&#039;t want to be bothered with security geek stuff. And that is disappointing as they aren&#039;t stupid. They can learn. They just don&#039;t want to. Their priorities are on other things - like downloading and installing stuff willy-nilly.Where do you think most of the people who end up in the malware removal assistance thread come from ? They&#039;re typical users that want to use stuff = happy clickings + downloading and installing stuff.I thought everyone here knows that typical users are generally a menace. How do their systems get infected ? Because they don&#039;t have nor practice security. And Microsoft negligently ships Windows in a security configuration that is really only suitable for IT Pros - a system that very few computer illiterate people can handle.Novices don&#039;t come to security forums like MT en masse. It is only the odd one that straggles in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 776013"] My statements are based upon hundreds of typical users. No one is educating them. They buy a PC and use it without direction. That is a typical user. And they absolutely cannot handle Windows security on their own. You educated the people you are talking about on IT security. That in itself makes them not typical users. By my definition they are computer literate because they have 1) had instruction and 2) adhere to it. I can guarantee you that the typical users that I observe, except for a few cases, would not be able to handle your guides. Typical users generally don't want to be bothered with security geek stuff. And that is disappointing as they aren't stupid. They can learn. They just don't want to. Their priorities are on other things - like downloading and installing stuff willy-nilly. Where do you think most of the people who end up in the malware removal assistance thread come from ? They're typical users that want to use stuff = happy clickings + downloading and installing stuff. I thought everyone here knows that typical users are generally a menace. How do their systems get infected ? Because they don't have nor practice security. And Microsoft negligently ships Windows in a security configuration that is really only suitable for IT Pros - a system that very few computer illiterate people can handle. Novices don't come to security forums like MT en masse. It is only the odd one that straggles in. [/QUOTE]

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