“An average user can be sucked down the hole of malware easily and there is NOTHING you can do to stop it and still let a system be usable”
So much truth to this. I am the family “computer guy”. I have had to clean up so many friends and family computers because they have no idea how to keep them secure.
With my close relatives, I finally put them on non-admin accounts. They can’t install anything on their own computers. They have to call me. That has helped a lot. Even so, things periodically get through.
Most people know that the computer in 2001 A Space Odessey was a play on IBM (computer name HAL is IBM minus one letter — the leter before I is H, before B is A, and M is L). I heard that Windows New Technology (WNT) was a salute to this and VMS (W-1 is V, N-1 is M, T-1 is S).