Southeast Asia and Mexico I can believe. Europe... I thought everyone there was more sophisticated than us hick Americans!
End users are a definite problem. They think security is IT's responsibility. Sorry, guys, but IT can't prevent you from opening that spam email with the data thief worm in it.
On a side note: I find Kaspersky AV and NOD32 to be far superior to Norton's products. Norton's home stuff is just terrible, and the way it integrates itself into a system should classify it as low-level malware. Norton Corporate is better, but I'd still rather go with Kaspersky.
I wonder how much of this crap would go away if companies used Macs for workstations.
I completely agree about Kaspersky. I didn't mention it earlier because it's not something the general user considers (but I do and it is about the best antiviral available, in my view). Most people can go find Norton and/or McAfee, though. Either of those last two are better than relying on the freebie suite softwares that ISPs are starting to offer *for, hey, security!*. It's disappointing how many users I read who say that they use those and those only "because they're free" and because they assume their ISP is looking out for them. Hardly...
I mean, try asking your ISP to replace your hardrive when it's ruined by a worm.
Meaning, people who rely on what their ISPs offer for security are really either lazy or very dim.
I completely agree about Kaspersky. I didn't mention it earlier because it's not something the general user considers (but I do and it is about the best antiviral available, in my view). Most people can go find Norton and/or McAfee, though. Either of those last two are better than relying on the freebie suite softwares that ISPs are starting to offer *for, hey, security!*. It's disappointing how many users I read who say that they use those and those only "because they're free" and because they assume their ISP is looking out for them. Hardly...
I mean, try asking your ISP to replace your hardrive when it's ruined by a worm.
Meaning, people who rely on what their ISPs offer for security are really either lazy or very dim.
Yeah, and Norton Professional, which includes the full array of features/programs. I've used that to good success but far prefer Kaspersky for reliability. But, Norton Professional does a great (enough) job for most users, if they use malware programs, also.