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> Heck, windows PCs were regularly infected by browsing the wrong website. Or getting served a malicious advertisement. Can you honestly say that people are get
by Peanuts99 3y ago
> Heck, windows PCs were regularly infected by browsing the wrong website. Or getting served a malicious advertisement. Can you honestly say that people are getting infected on Android regularly by surfing the internet?
I have used Windows for nearly 2 decades and I can't tell you the last time my system was infected. I do agree that browsers are the largest vector of attack but that also means browser vendors share some of the largest responsibility for creating secure systems.
- bamfly 3y agoTwo decades ago was near the end of that Windows-malware peak. And really, if you were behind a NAT two decades ago, that would have stopped nearly all of it, so you might not have noticed how bad it was unless you were supporting a lot of Windows machines in varied environments. There was a span of a few years when a Windows box connected directly to the Internet, using a public address, would reliably get pwned before long, even with nobody using it. But that was quite a while ago, and, again, just being behind a NATing router mostly solved the problem (assuming nothing infected ever connected to your local network).