Undermining Our Own Security Software
Are we at the point with malware countermeasures that no matter how good they are they still can't protect us from ourselves? (Think guns don't kill people, people kill people). How about these statistics:
From InfoWorld's story on browser sandboxes:
Even when ForceField warns people that they're about to download potentially malicious code, this may not stop them. A Microsoft security intelligence report released in May showed some incredulous behavior: 88 percent of users chose to ignore a warning about BearShare, a software bundler, and continued to download the file; 68 percent ignored a warning about adware ZangoSearch Assistant; and 23 percent ignored a warning about a Trojan downloader.
Some of us just don't get it.
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