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Re: Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online

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> The high adoption of antivirus software > among non-experts ... might be due to the > good usability of the install-once type of > solution that antivirus software offers. Or due to the fact, that antivirus companies make money on selling antivirus software to non-experts and have a long history of advertising it to non-experts as a security solution.

Yep, it seems that marketing works. :D

Re: Comparing how security experts and non-experts stay safe online

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your using a Linux distro already you have to: 1. install virtual box from package manager 2. download .iso of some distro 3. install 4. update virtual machine 5. browse Of these someone who's installed their own OS has 2 slightly novel steps. So yeah trivial is maybe the wrong words but still easy.

> If your using a Linux distro Most people aren't. I think most people haven't installed on OS at all for that matter.

Fair play. I'm around so many people that have that I forget that most haven't.
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