The unfortunate thing is a lot of the time the typical home user will download anything and everything that they see, especially youngsters, without truly knowing what it is or knowing the consequences of what they are installing.
The
consequences in my house are that each time the kids manage to infect themselves their machine gets unplugged from the net until I've got time to fix it. "Until I've got time" takes twice as long for each infection.
They finally got the message when they were without internet access for a fortnight. They know that next time they get infected it'll be a month.
There have been no infections for the last several years, as a month without internet is a sufficient
consequence to get them to be careful
