This is a Windows problem. Their programmers who make their "security rules" are 19 years old now, never knew a world without digital toys, and think that by using the 'rules' they learned while programming games for fun & profit that they can make the [digital] world safe for everyone.
Our forum gets "hit" by nefarious entities almost daily, and it is a marvelous tribute to our site's authors and maintenance-chasers that this place even survives, given what AI is doing to the 'net now.
Let's hear it for our webmasters: they don't have a simple job, now. There was a time (in the 1980s and 1990s) when you could put up a forum like this and the participants' typing mistakes were the biggest problem we had. Today we're being sieved daily by non-human programming that is designed to try to extract money from every site it can touch - and hold hostage - to deliver funds to the programmers who have nothing better to do in life than try to thieve something from someone else so they don't have to do actual work themselves. I spent decades programming factories to fight this crap off, and today it's becoming automated.
This isn't a rant. It's the truth.
