I can across this article and mentioned it to some friends still using windows:

http://readynutrition.com/resources/...tips_10062015/

I like that article and I wonder how those tips can be conveyed more mainstream. Not that the author isn't trying to do exactly that.

I read it and it's all common sense, much of the same things I do, and I either learned one additional concept or some added tricks I hadn't thought of.

The thing is to get the persons who do need to read it and learn from it, to do both of those actions: "read it, and learn from it."

the only problem is
-- well there are MANY "only problems"

the "low hanging fruit "
will NEVER even try

the rest still has the issue that
THE BANK!!
the DR. office
The insurance company
Target !! ( the store)
and so on


it is LESS EXPENSIVE for them to " i do not care" than to SECURE your information .

THEY are the main targets of data theft

Good, but you don't need two different computers. You could just have two different users. Or you could just secure your system.

Umm...not really true. A ***dows PC really is just leaky...I think the piece was aimed at ***dows users...the ones that basically dont really know WHAT a user is :P
THor

Consider Linux...it says.

Well, there's an idea...

Eh...what we've been saying all along...they never listen...they never do...

Unfortunately, Windows could, and properly should, be a very secure system. The original design was intended to afford strong, centrally-managed security. But, literally millions of "Home Edition" versions do not come with the necessary tools to achieve proper security. I believe that the Microsoft Marketing Department worked against the interests of the user community.

I flatly recommend that users should purchase a "middle of the road" (non-OEM ...) Windows DVD, then wipe the drive clean and install Windows from that ... omitting as much "cruft" as possible including all of the Symantec security (sic ...) stuff.

Configure one single Administrator ... whose name is not "Administrator" ... and one-or-more purpose specific "limited users." Disable stuff like "guests." In other words, all the usual security things.

Configure and install an actual, continuously-running, backup system, driving to an external hard drive.

And if you actually, carefully, do that ... the resulting system is actually pretty darned secure.

Basically, it boils down to education. People take the PC for granted as a bastion of safety. I hear it at work all the time..."so, that PC has windows 98 on it...but, I only use it to read my mail, surf a bit and do my online banking...that's all, how bad can it be?"...sure, yea sure...

Oh, Thor, all of that pales in comparison to the exposure people now have today through their phones! When I see banks saying that you can make a deposit by photographing a check, or anything at all to do with systems like Apple Pay, I shudder.

A cellular telephone was never designed to be a secure device. Regardless of manufacturer, as-deployed it virtually does not have functional security. It's just about the same situation as "Windows 98."

(Note: I don't mean that to be "literally" true, because I know as we all do that, technically, it is not. But, I feel, "functionally," it most-certainly is. "And that's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it." )

OOO, I forgot about that...but, permit me to make you shudder a bit more, here in belgium, you can use the smartphone to withdraw cash...
Have NOT yet done that...the reason is clear...
Lose the phone...lose your cash?
Eeeeeek
Thor