Trouble is users always want more functionality. Sooner or later they’ll install software and bypass the privilege limitation. Plus the average user doesn’t know what a command line is.
The real secret is to keep your system up to date, avoid high risk behaviors and take some common sense precautions. Its worked for me for about 9 years.
“The real secret is to keep your system up to date, avoid high risk behaviors and take some common sense precautions. Its worked for me for about 9 years.”
If you have the time and inclination, could you outline what these precautions are? I am a non-technically inclined person who uses my PC (with Windows) to write fiction, send and receive uploads of unpublished fiction [for the purpose of beta reading], and who visits only a few political sites, writer sites, weather and a few misc. [such as occasionally the Urban Dictionary] sites. I used a paid subscription to Panda for a while, but I kept getting viruses. I’m using a trial version or Norton right now. Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated.