Reply to post: Too much to hope for

Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware

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Too much to hope for

The truth of the matter is that it's simply not possible for hundreds of millions (or even billions) of fairly clueless consumers and office workers to run a big, complicated, general-purpose operating system with all the trimmings AND have security take care of itself automatically.

Economically, "one size fits all" has been a miracle worker, drastically reducing the cost of computers and software. But the fundamental axiom of security is that it militates *strongly* against everything else you could possibly want.

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