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Thankyouall for all the good advice regarding security software! But don’t you, as I do, feel that there is something fundamentally wrong here, when all this work and cost is necessary just in order to browse the internet?? Why do we accept all this criminal software on the internet threatening us?? Wouldn’t it be easier to eliminate that?

The situation on the internet today is like the old wild west. Lots of gunned criminals around, and a weak society lacking a police force, a developed court system etc. At that time every man and home had to take care of their own security. But in a modern society you don’t have to wear a bulletproof vest whenever outdoors, or turning your home into a fortress. It is simply not allowed to walk around threatening people with a gun, or trying to break in to peoples houses. But on the internet, any computer turned into a weapon by a botnet, is still allowed to connect, threatening our security. Why not simply disconnect them from the internet? That would not be a problem technically.

Or is the internet still ruled by the romantic idea of total freedom to do anything, like in the old wild west, and we are willingly paying the price with all this security software and hardware??