Re:Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker
by khedoros on Thursday September 22, 2016 @05:19PM
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Do they, though? Everything I've read over the past 5 years has claimed an 80-90% miss rate. On the other hand, often the first sign I see of an infection is that the virus scanner is disabled, so I suppose it acts as a kind of canary, in that sense.
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Re:Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker
by 01Michael10 on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:56AM
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I can't really argue with you if just going to make up stats... I have been helping non-tech savvy family, friends, and co-workers for over 25 years. The ones who didn't have AV installed or let the one that came with the PC expire had a almost 100% infection rate. Once I installed a good AV product infection issues with most of them was not an issue again. Yes, nothing stops stupidity 100%.
Re:Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker
by khedoros on Saturday September 24, 2016 @12:11AM
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25 years ago, I'd be right with you. 15 years ago, too. Since then? I think your anecdata are outdated. Things just aren't going to be caught by signature-based scanning anymore. In terms of automated detection, the bad guys won. "Good" AV detection, if there is such a thing these days, are the tiny vendors that infections aren't designed specifically to fight against. All the big names get disabled, or otherwise rendered non-functional.