> Safari and all other browsers can be set in Preferences to Not open
> downloads. You might also set your browser to not let applications to
> install themselves.
Roger: I have already done this.
I do this on Windows, too. Never got a virus of my own on Windows. BUT, I
have spent a decade supporting between 100 and 200 Windows users, and a lot
of people:
1. Do not EVER change the default settings.
2. Automatically answer YES to any dialog that comes up.
Once or twice, I've had someone come to me because they got a virus from
saving and running something they got in email or when a website tried
to push something on them. I've never had someone do this twice. I've had
people that took multiple rounds of clicking "yes" to "you MIGHT be trying
to do something stupid" to realise that the computer wasn't just crying
wolf all the time.
I don't get it. Apple has done a good, if not perfect, job of maintaining
system security by having very few auto-anything opportunities for bad guys
to sneak in. I'd rather they didn't have any, but what they're doing worked
even if it isn't "in your face". Or... BECAUSE it isn't "in your face".
Now they've decided to "look safer" by doing what Microsoft does, when we
know that what Microsoft does DOES NOT WORK. This worries me. They should
be moving towards a "be safe by default" design, not a "keep people scared"
design that tries to make people more careful without giving them any useful
guidance as to what "being careful" might involve.
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