>if only they would just do literally the first things they should be worried about.
as the sibling comments to this one pointed out, most people change the default Explorer settings, first thing.
In fact changing the default Explorer settings has been a security warning for years.
In conclusion, yes I believe if something is in a common list of things you should do to make your windows system more secure (for like, people who are not security experts) and you don't do it then probably "God, people are so stupid" is a reasonable response.
In conclusion, yes, I believe if something is in a common list of things that people (who are not security experts) should do to make their system more secure and the developer of that system refuses to make that the default, then "God, that developer is so stupid" is a reasonable response.
I wouldn't blame most people for not changing this setting.
Except air-gapped systems should be setup by security experts, so stupidity all 'round.
as the sibling comments to this one pointed out, most people change the default Explorer settings, first thing.
In fact changing the default Explorer settings has been a security warning for years.
In conclusion, yes I believe if something is in a common list of things you should do to make your windows system more secure (for like, people who are not security experts) and you don't do it then probably "God, people are so stupid" is a reasonable response.