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As an aside, commercial AV

As an aside, commercial AV and anti-spyware companies are making a lot of money off the paranoia about viruses with mainstream users. Anyone ever listen to the Kim Komando show on Saturday mornings? It's usually pretty lame, but sometimes it's the best thing on. Almost every single time I listen to it she gets a caller that is absolutely petrified of physically connecting his computer to the internet because he is convinced that all kinds of bad things are just waiting to jump into his machine when he does. She gets this so often that she has posted step by step instructions on her site to "safely get you connected to the internet."

I've had one legitimate computer virus in my life...in 1998. It's pretty simple: don't download .exes and don't install any programs from a non-trustworthy source. I suppose the finer points of that mantra are more difficult for novices, but the paranoia over viruses among mainstream users really bugs me. I hear people on her show and on Leo Laporte's "The Tech Guy" call in and blame ridiculous things on "a virus." (most often HD failures)

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