Some folks in the computer security world still believe that the growing and pervasive use of computers in the past twenty years has enabled the average person to become functionally computer literate. While most people know how to open a Microsoft Word document, read email and use a browser, far fewer know (or care) about what it takes to secure their computer.

That's a major reason why so many hundreds of thousands of drones and bots exist and are under control of black hat folks. Your parents' computer could quite likely be "owned" right now, a compromised bot that's available for misuse by a large group of miscreants - and maybe you won't find out about it until the next time Mom and Dad invite you over for turkey dinner.

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I suspect it won't be long before some grandmother is in court because her PC was spewing our virus laden emails that eventually did damage somewhere.

Also, I'd like to see ISP's take a more active role. If a home user that normally sends 10 emails a week is pumping 100 a minute out port 25, you have a problem. I'd love to see a major ISP cut those users off and refuse to restore service until the end user proves they have taken proper precautions.