And if you had done what MS recommends then the OS would have protected you. Don’t run as admin, use the free firewall that comes with the OS, get automatic updates and Windows boxes can be quite secure. Don’t do those things and no OS will protect you.
I had XP and did those things and more and it only took one misstep somewhere for the freeze, crash, restart process to begin. Not to mention the endless alerts of all the times I had been “protected”, hours of scans, defrags, etc, it never ended. I have none of these annoyances with apple.
If I wanted to be computer savvy, I would, I have no interest. I want to be able to use the applications of the computer, not understand the inner workings, etc. I understand these things are very easy for a lot of experienced PC people, but not for ME.
It is very easy for ME to shoot in the 70’s from the back tees of any golf course in the world, I don’t expect that from everyone I play with though.