Frightening

This article in The Reg today spells out in the baldest possible terms how vulnerable your average home PC is out of the box. The most frightening statistic is that the brand-new machine can be hopelessly compromised in less than the time it would take to download all the updates designed to protect it. And that's if you knew what you were doing.

I've seen a brand new PC laptop connect to the internet for the first time and it is frightening how quickly those pop-up ads start to appear. It's enough to go and lock yourself away from the world. The safest way to connect to the innernet is to not connect to the innernet.

It's rubbish anyway. It'll never catch on.