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Re:Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker by user5994461 on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:22PM (#12559478)
It's actually counter intuitive but in practice, anti virus are useless for non advanced users because they don't understand it.

A normal people get a message "Virus win32.badthingy detected: -delete- -quarantine- -ignore-". He clicks on the little "x" in the corner of the window.

-- true story

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Re:Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker by 01Michael10 on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:44AM (#12564111)
Your actual argument is the stupidest of the stupidest users can't read a prompt so AV is useless for any user? LOL
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