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What if they click the link, run the downloaded invoice.EXE, and enter their password when prompted? At a certain point, the user needs to be educated enough to

What if they click the link, run the downloaded invoice.EXE, and enter their password when prompted? At a certain point, the user needs to be educated enough to avoid this. PDF/Office macros are a whole other topic though.

sp332 9y ago
There's a really big gap there. Look at chromeOS - you can click a lot more email links on that OS without getting ransomware'd.
- Piskvorrr 9y ago
  Is it because the OS is inherently more secure, or because the malicious code is not written for that OS?
  - sp332 9y ago
    Yeah, the sandboxing helps a lot. I mean look at iOS - super popular, huge target for malware, but it hardly ever gets hacked.