You never saw IE6 running on Win98 with a dozen toolbars installed, did you? The place was infested and you actually needed to know what you were doing.
Antivirus would be pinging constantly back in those days. I haven’t had my AV detect anything since the early 2000s.
Now you have catphishing, ransomwere, lot’s of different types of scammers and your credit cards can be stolen from some random e-commerce site. You also need to know what you’re doing.
You never saw IE6 running on Win98 with a dozen toolbars installed, did you? The place was infested and you actually needed to know what you were doing.
Antivirus would be pinging constantly back in those days. I haven’t had my AV detect anything since the early 2000s.
Now you have catphishing, ransomwere, lot’s of different types of scammers and your credit cards can be stolen from some random e-commerce site. You also need to know what you’re doing.
Remember when we all suddenly needed personal firewalls after that one virus that kept shutting down the PC with 60 seconds notice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)