Quote - Yep, sounds like you take reasonable precautions. 

As you say, there are exploits and such that could happen no matter what, certainly if you run an online cart.  I used to run ZenCart and yeah, you kind of have to keep on top of it.  I gave up partly because they kept changing core functionality and then I had to deal with moving databases and all that nonsense and part of it was self-modding the cart.  I didn't want it bad enough.  If it's going to get depreciated every other minor revision, I'm done...

I don't think I've gone without AV.  I used to be a big Avast! supporter and yeah, I pretty much tried them all.  I just run MS Security Essentials now.  Avast, IMHO, there is too much a fucking "shield" for everything and I just don't want to deal with that.  In other words, bloatware.  No offense to someone that enjoys Avast! or feels protected by it, I just lost interest with it.  ..and the fact that there are AVs that really can screw with your system because they are over-reaching.

But in an age where everyone has a computer, instead of just the geeky, nerdy types, I can see why we have all this dependency of just letting the software take care of everything for you (UAC, AV suites of 2 dozen shields, site protection).  And if I sound like I'm saying it's "dumbed down"... well, in many ways, it is.  You have to consider covering all ranges and expertise levels of users.  You have to facilitate the user who just wants to turn on their computer, check mail, facebook and play some games and not deal with all the geeky stuff.

True. Yes, well, we have to make it easy for the "digital natives" who never had to type commands to do simple things like copy or move files. :D

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