Social Responses to Malware 4
Channel: DisneyDumbazz
Date: 03/10/2010

Computers can be harmful as a gun - (but not as lethal) but not as easy to understand. 

If you care about your credit, your money or the safety of your fellow man or countrymen, you should take seriously what I have to say. You will see that I am serious  if you do some research (not from Antivirus vendors) but from academic researchers or security researchers like the Honeynet Project.

Most people allow others to handle their computer "gun" for them and expect that the people they know are handling their "gun" will do it right because they are paid. 

However, even though Antivirus software makers can't stop malicious people from trying out the "gun" which is under their protection, they still want to get paid, so they overstate the effectiveness of their product.

Most people are unable to perceive the dangers that await them by simply browsing the Internet and end up undermining themselves: mostly by a combination of a lack of knowledge and rationalization motivated by an expectation that other people will solve their problems for them. 

I'm making this presentation in the hope that people will wake up. But I honestly doubt that I will get my point across, which, of course, is my point.