Yes, it's a sign of the times, it's the wild west of exploits out there. And what Sir Raleigh said.
At the same time, this is another example where people will go to a greater amount of work to avoid a lesser amount of work. This vendor has coded a whole new service and started selling it, and people will buy it and get it set up, - all to help them avoid hazards that wouldn't even be significant hazards in the first place if they would just invest the minimal amount of effort to find out how to secure their computers.
I'm going to call this the hyena principle, after this classic snark: »
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