Advice Request What was your dumbest security mistake?

[Sorrento]

My other half clicked on a link on Facebook for some magical tablets of some sort or another (magic beans) a couple of years ago & was landed with a bill of £120 a month, the tablets were useless, we had a right job of cancelling - Our bank actually got the money back after they took over £240 UKP.

 

[fabiobr]

When I unpack a malware from malware hub in my main PC thinking it would be fine since I had to click on it to execute it.

Kaspersky warn me and deleted it at the moment I unpack it thanks to the cloud/UDS.

 

[Sorrento]

Buying a licence for several devices for ESET a few months ago probably wasn't a good idea, on their main UK page protection against new threats is unchecked for IS???? (what's that supposed to mean for new users, only works against old ones) It seems they don't consider IS a premium product?? in the latest malware tests Defenders £0.00 score was an improvement on ESET IS? I wonder if ESET have recently visited the planet earth? Really can't see me bothering with it again, sad as it was the first AV I used NOD32

 

[ScandinavianFish]

Buying a licence for several devices for ESET a few months ago probably wasn't a good idea, on their main UK page protection against new threats is unchecked for IS???? (what's that supposed to mean for new users, only works against old ones) It seems they don't consider IS a premium product?? in the latest malware tests Defenders £0.00 score was an improvement on ESET IS? I wonder if ESET have recently visited the planet earth? Really can't see me bothering with it again, sad as it was the first AV I used NOD32

Yeah its just an marketing ploy to bait people into buying the most expensive version, all ESET versions has protection against zero days.

 

[Sorrento]

Yeah its just an marketing ploy to bait people into buying the most expensive version, all ESET versions has protection against zero days.

Yes, I was just wonder how it would look for a new user buying it for the first time - From my point of view a pretty mad thing to put - Companies such as ESET seem to think they can walk on water & not realising times are a changing??

 

[jetman]

I once sent Facebook a scan of my passport to prove my ID.
I can’t believe how stupid that was.