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PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security
Billosaur writes "ARS Technica is reporting on a study release by McAfee and the National Cyber Security Alliance (as part of the beginning of National Cyber Security Awareness Month) that suggests when it comes to PC security, the problem between the keyboard and the chair is even worse. PEBKAC has always been a problem, but the study highlights just how prevalent it has become. 87 percent of the users contacted said they used anti-virus software, while 70 percent use anti-spyware software. Fewer (64 percent) reported having their firewalls turned on, and only 27 percent use software designed to stop phishing attempts. Researchers were allowed to scan the computers of a subset of the users, and while 70 percent claimed to be using anti-spyware software, only 55 percent of the machines of those users scanned showed evidence of the software."
Slashdot is a bit like having a site for steam engine enthusiasts who sit around talking about how the average user doesn't grease his flange compression ringlets between fly wheel alignment cycles, And then having a good old laugh at them while at the same time being a smug prick.
These people may have more malware, but i bet they get laid more often.
God Be Gone
Whatever security exists, it is now gone.
That's only because Windows, Linux, etc. use a brain-dead security model.
Linux with SELInux cannot help - the user will simply turn it off when instructed to do so.
Again, SELinux is a braindead security model; that's why people have to turn it off.