home users

Linux.com: "OpenOffice.org has risen to quite a place of prominence among office workers, home users, students, and just about every category in between.

Why?"

Eleven is Louder: "What are the real threats to open source software?...From programmers to home users, we are the cancer killing Linux."

Technology and Business: ""If Linux was the default platform being used by the majority of home users, things would be very different.

The criminals would be actively targeting the people and the platform, and based on history, they would succeed just as well as they do targeting Windows based users today.""

Facing malware is a way of life in the digital world, and the pressure on everyone from home users to corporate giants to do all they can to minimize its damaging effects is immense.

Just how much pressure there is was made quite clear on Saturday morning, as a routine update to Google's list of malware sites went horribly wrong, labeling every site in the company's database as dangerous and rendering the service unusable.