Maybe we should make young learners in primary school use "infected" Windows XP so they can dodge spam popups and learn what and what not to click.

They'd just click it away every time, when my nephew got a gaming laptop he'd play mindcraft and the windows sticky keys popup would be firing constantly must have seen him dismiss it 15 times before I offered to show him how to get rid of it.

Growing up I had a "computing" class in high school. It's where I learned to type, but also learned the basics of using both macOS(9 at the time) and Windows.

It was also drilled into me that the default state of anything on the internet is to be untrusted and potentially harmful.

It also helped that you could actually tinker with things, and there were plenty of foot guns around to drill that lesson home.

Somewhere along the way that message got lost and didn't get communicated to the young ones, and I'm not even that old (38).