Comment Re:How about educating your dumbfuck mother? (Score 5, Interesting) 463
The most common attack vector for this particular malware and many like it is email attachments.
That was true 4-6 years ago, but not today. Now we're seeing most of this stuff getting installed via zero-day exploits in browsers and plugins like Java and Flash, and distributed via third-party advertising networks. It's a lot harder to blame someone for getting compromised via a browser plugin they didn't even know they had.
The best protection these days is still to block all advertising, run with limited permissions, and have automated external backups with versioning. If the user is capable, blocking all third-party scripting is also incredibly effective.
It's 2015 anyone in the world can still send an email with file attachments to anyone using whatever FROM address they'd like without any prior trust relationship, vetting or authorization by receiver.
You just listed some of the best features of email.
It is *our* fault for installing AV software and going back to picking our noses
Now this is true. Antivirus software has been a joke for a decade.