ransomware alone costs the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars every year. remote-access trojans ruin lives and literally drive people to suicide. if you think you are too smart to ever click on a bad app, you are mistaken.
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This! Apple already went through this when they finally caved on allowing anti-virus software in the app store
I was talking with an elderly neighbor about their options with the windows 10 end of life, and Linux came up.
Their hold-outs for a swap were lack of AV software, and old camera software.
Both of those make sense for them! They're not super tech literate, so viruses are a real concern. Treating it as a non-issue is holding the ecosystem back