Exactly. Instead of encouraging an environment of healthy suspicion and "I don't know what this does, maybe I should find out more first; else I shouldn't run it" type of attitude, we've gotten into a situation where people are seemingly loathe to educate themselves - and have been conditioned to trust whatever some piece of software says about whether something is malware or not.
I appreciate your desire to improve user security, but it is a huge uphill battle, and many things that you imagine will help will just make users switch to something that nags them less.
Teaching users to be safe -- assuming that's possible -- is a battle that has to be won in very very small steps.
Exactly. Instead of encouraging an environment of healthy suspicion and "I don't know what this does, maybe I should find out more first; else I shouldn't run it" type of attitude, we've gotten into a situation where people are seemingly loathe to educate themselves - and have been conditioned to trust whatever some piece of software says about whether something is malware or not.
As this comment a few days ago mentions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9032087
Exposure to malware helps build the "immune system" in users. This is similar to the biological concept too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis