Hi malware fighters,
And then some may ask who read the above posting, what happened with the CAPS policy? For CAPS to be performed in a decent matter, the user must be script savvy and know to handle the subtleties of the browser configuration (as bob3160 remarked in a reply to something I published about configuration tweaking in Fx or Flock), again very tweakable and fine-tunable to your every security need, but not the kettle of fish for the average user as bob3160 declared. It is the same as with the malware expert that knows how to SafeHex his or her Operational System and then "could" do without a resident AV solution (and occasionally works a non-resident scan if he/she/it feels the need for it) - this for the happy few because the average user will still need full resident AV and a FW and additional anti-spyware, so a multi-layered protection. The user that knows how to make his browser secure and knows how to secure his OS (drop your admin rights fully, fully secure browsers etc.) is in a complete different position then the average user that does not even know how to perform this and why he/she/it should do it. If everybody would apply SafeHex, use CAPS, NS and RP etc. not 50 % of the American users for example should be behind a computer they virtually do not own and are part of a botherding botnet dominion to serve the needs of cybercrime or adclick & Co, and that is the situation we have not only in the States but world-wide. Yes I say to the security aware, well that is the situation we have. Try to change it, but whether you will get results still has to be seen. And there I agree with the others that say to change the security situation you have to start with yourself and to learn to do that and in order get instructions how to do so we come here to exchange these ideas. Thanks to avast for giving us the possibilities to come to such a very educational security site. I already learned a lot, also thanks for all the others that post here and keep us on track,
with virtual regards,
polonus (malware fighter)