Cyber-security experts are the biggest memes. I'm sick of their rhetoric,
They are basically paranoid of eveything.
Most "Cyber security experts are basically relics from the early 2000's when pre SP2 Windows XP was extremely insecure and hackers were having a field day exploiting it.
It's true any piece of software that can read a file and execute a macro can in theory be compromised with a virus or malware but the chances are extremely low and even lower if you use common sense. The advice of a cyber-security experts definitely will help and apply to specific businesses and people that are or are potentially targets. But the average person just looks like a paranoid loon following their advice. They also fail to realize that Windows 10 in itself has built in spyware like Cortana and people using wire shark to detect fresh installs of Windows 10 has it's own mysterious encrypted messages going to Microsoft Servers or God knows where.
Microsoft already has built in spyware and every website has a tracking pixel and your iphone/Android tracks you everywhere so your privacy is long gone. It's okay if a large corporate entity puts spyware on your OS but it's wrong if a little dumb script kiddie does it. Most people who call themselves cyber security "experts" are still mentally living in the early 2000's. The new spyware is Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google.