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Being infected with malware is, hopefully, a rare event. I think it's reasonable to alert the user they've got it, even a non techy user knows roughly what thos
by aflag 4y ago
Being infected with malware is, hopefully, a rare event. I think it's reasonable to alert the user they've got it, even a non techy user knows roughly what those are. If they know about it they may have an idea of how they got it (they may have let someone else use their laptop or maybe received an email from someone new), which can be useful so they don't get more malware.
If you really want an innovative way of doing it is trying to give the user a good track record so they know exactly where that came from.
- hellweaver666 4y agoI'm glad that they don't. Otherwise I would have my 75 year old father-in-law on the phone panicking every five minutes. He insists on having his own computer and after five years of dealing with his constant issues I convinced him to move to a Mac. Now I only get the calls a couple of times a year.
- alwillis 4y ago> I'm glad that they don't. Otherwise I would have my 75 year old father-in-law on the phone panicking every five minutes. Exactly! Since there’s nothing the average everyday user can do about the malware, there’s really no need to alert them. There’s a lot of stuff in system logs that would worry none-technical users if they knew about them.