From “ignorance is bliss” to “surprise attack and disaster” – how many thousands of Internet users have experienced this frustration and grief?
This raises the obvious question: “Why haven’t they prepared to avoid it?”
The startling fact is that there are many long term Internet users who have never even considered updating their Operating Systems and protective Safe-ware.
Perhaps the complexity of it all contributes to what might be described as User apathy – or indifference and a lack of enthusiasm toward the following:
* The news of yet another vulnerability or patch process.
* The potential damage to computer, personal information and reputation – i.e. the “It can’t happen to me” attitude.
* Their own abilities – i.e. “I’m too old, too dumb, too whatever – to learn how to fix a computer without breaking something.”
* Updating – i.e. “My computer came with an anti-virus program, so why does it need to be updated now?”
The sad fact is that the lack of confidence people have in their...