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 ====== How protection doesn't work ====== ====== How protection doesn't work ======
 ===== 1. Common Sense ===== ===== 1. Common Sense =====
-Common sense is the single most frequent advice that can be found on the internet. And it's true - human judgement can be a good and sometimes even the most effective layer of protection against threats of all kind. But.. who doesn't use common sense? I don't think most people would say that they are being irrational as they carry out an act that is irrational. Human judgement is prone to failure - that's why car accidents happen all the time. That's why most plane crashes happen. To say that you should primarily use common sense is to say that you should just drive better. Giving common sense as advice is to say "just don't make mistakes". Clearly, this is not how reality works.+<WRAP box right centeralign 18%> 
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 +You are perfectly right, humans are the biggest threat to their PC. Therefore, we should not trust humans with keeping a PC safe. Not this guy, not your mom, not you - regardless of good you think you are. Get proper antimalware. 
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 +Common sense is the single most frequent advice that can be found on the internet. And it's true - human judgement can be a good and sometimes even the most effective layer of protection against threats of all kind. But.. who doesn't use common sense? I don't think most people would say that they are being irrational as they carry out an act that is irrational. Human judgement is prone to failure - that's why car accidents happen all the time. That's why most plane crashes happen. To say that you should primarily use common sense is to say that you should just drive better. To say that you should just "not make mistakes". This is not how reality works.
  
 With heavy and potentially dangerous machines, operator training and safe handling standards are one half of the equation. The other half sits in the design department with skilled and knowledgeable people who recognize that even the most knowledgeable and experienced operator will make a mistake. Just a lapse of judgement. A brief moment of distraction, inattention. Tiredness, exhaustion or sometimes maybe just plain stupidity. Confirmation bias, pilots have to learn about this a lot. In fact, pilots will know best that the biggest threat to modern airplanes is the human sitting in the cockpit, and they are extensively trained to resist the kind of errors humans often make. To deny this reality is to deny decades of statistics and the science of risk management. Human factor is rule number #1. Don't fall victim to rule #1. With heavy and potentially dangerous machines, operator training and safe handling standards are one half of the equation. The other half sits in the design department with skilled and knowledgeable people who recognize that even the most knowledgeable and experienced operator will make a mistake. Just a lapse of judgement. A brief moment of distraction, inattention. Tiredness, exhaustion or sometimes maybe just plain stupidity. Confirmation bias, pilots have to learn about this a lot. In fact, pilots will know best that the biggest threat to modern airplanes is the human sitting in the cockpit, and they are extensively trained to resist the kind of errors humans often make. To deny this reality is to deny decades of statistics and the science of risk management. Human factor is rule number #1. Don't fall victim to rule #1.
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 And that still doesn’t cover risks beyond your control. Supply chain attacks, insecure devices on your network, careless family members, colleagues, or even vendors whose own security might be weak, remote code execution vulnerabilities, all of these are threats you cannot fix with judgment alone. The digital landscape has countless entry points far beyond simply “not downloading shady files", and treating common sense as the primary defense ignores the true scale of the problem. And that still doesn’t cover risks beyond your control. Supply chain attacks, insecure devices on your network, careless family members, colleagues, or even vendors whose own security might be weak, remote code execution vulnerabilities, all of these are threats you cannot fix with judgment alone. The digital landscape has countless entry points far beyond simply “not downloading shady files", and treating common sense as the primary defense ignores the true scale of the problem.
  
-===== 2. What not to rely on: Windows Defender? =====+===== 2. Windows Defender? =====
 There is a pervasive myth that common sense plus Windows Defender are enough to keep you safe. Or that Windows Defender is as safe or safer than other products on the market. Obviously, "safe" isn't a binary. It's not that you are either "safe" or "not safe", the only truth here is that different combinations of precautions lead to different levels of //risk//. But still, the idea is that Common Sense plus Windows Defender is enough for the risk to be "low enough" for these people. There is a pervasive myth that common sense plus Windows Defender are enough to keep you safe. Or that Windows Defender is as safe or safer than other products on the market. Obviously, "safe" isn't a binary. It's not that you are either "safe" or "not safe", the only truth here is that different combinations of precautions lead to different levels of //risk//. But still, the idea is that Common Sense plus Windows Defender is enough for the risk to be "low enough" for these people.
  
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