Quote Originally Posted by Dairystyle View Post
The thing is, you might not know you did. That's what malicious code does. It doesn't announce itself to you. There is no "hey I'm here to steal your personal information, click me!" warning.

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Yes, that's exactly it yet I often see people get blamed for getting their account compromised as if they were intentionally negligent or sloppy. This is directed at those people who blame anyone who gets compromised as having done something wrong.
There is software that will alert you whenever changes are being made to your OS. I for one love all the registry change warnings I get (not really, they're actually kind of annoying).