pooch

Its quite easy for us to sit her and discuss this. The trouble is that many average users are just not "savvy" enough, or they just don't care. They are ignorant of the dangers and of how to protect themselves, I have met enough people who believe that the microsoft firewall is all that they need.

The answer here is probably for Microsoft to offer Windows with a Firewall, Antivirus and Anti-spyware out of the box, that could also be uninstalled by anyone who did not want to use it. This would then give a certain amount of protection to the average user.

The problem here though is, as you can imagine The Microsoft bashers would have a field day,