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I'm glad that they don't. Otherwise I would have my 75 year old father-in-law on the phone panicking every five minutes. He insists on having his own computer and after five years of dealing with his constant issues I convinced him to move to a Mac. Now I only get the calls a couple of times a year.



> I'm glad that they don't. Otherwise I would have my 75 year old father-in-law on the phone panicking every five minutes.

Exactly! Since there’s nothing the average everyday user can do about the malware, there’s really no need to alert them.

There’s a lot of stuff in system logs that would worry none-technical users if they knew about them.


They can stop opening sites and emails that give them malware. If the person who sent it to them in the first place was a friend, they can also tell it to their friend. You don't have to be a seasoned software engineer to understand that.


Exactly!




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