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by therealcamino 1864 days ago
Malware in the past has been an enormous problem, with huge numbers of average users affected. To say that we don't need protection against malware because it's not a major problem now is circular reasoning, and ignores literally decades of effort to bring the problem under control.

For a certain generation of adults, going to visit your non-technical parents socially meant budgeting extra time to eradicate the adware of the month. It was a constant problem affecting large swaths of users, and fixing it was beyond the technical ability of most people.

Edited: fix typo.