3. UAC prompts that annoy users to the point where the user either turns them off or automatically clicks yes. This is in part because of the even weirder situation of legitimate software often being written to touch things that it has no business touching.
4. End users trained to execute software obtained from random internet sites.
5. File names used to identify files as executable.
There are probably other backward things with regard to security too, although I cannot think of them offhand.
Your best choices would be installing a Linux distribution or buying an Apple machine running Mac OS X. If you must use some sort of Windows, check out ReactOS:
That likely does something by virtue of not having same bugs and not having yet implemented the legacy things that exploits often target. It is not as good for security as Linux or Mac OS X though.
1. Antivirus software that gives a false sense of security being popular.
2. The vendor refusing to fix vulnerabilities that give attackers complete control because of backward compatibility concerns:
http://foxglovesecurity.com/2016/01/16/hot-potato/
3. UAC prompts that annoy users to the point where the user either turns them off or automatically clicks yes. This is in part because of the even weirder situation of legitimate software often being written to touch things that it has no business touching.
4. End users trained to execute software obtained from random internet sites.
5. File names used to identify files as executable.
There are probably other backward things with regard to security too, although I cannot think of them offhand.
Your best choices would be installing a Linux distribution or buying an Apple machine running Mac OS X. If you must use some sort of Windows, check out ReactOS:
https://www.reactos.org/
That likely does something by virtue of not having same bugs and not having yet implemented the legacy things that exploits often target. It is not as good for security as Linux or Mac OS X though.