[doorgunner69]

In over twinety years of PC usage, never had a virus on my personal machines. A work machine running Win 2000 hooked to a raw internet feed was infected, easily cleaned with antivirus sweep.

Originally used Norton, got sick of the bloat, used free stuff for years now, no problems on my or wife's machines.

Dunno why you are so paranoid. Just never open attachments from odd sources or at all. I run free Avast and do a scan every so often along with real time protection. No infections, no drama.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

used Norton, got sick of the bloat, used free stuff for years now, no problems on my or wife's machines.

never open attachments from odd sources or at all. I run free Avast and do a scan every so often along with real time protection. No infections, no drama.

Dunno why you are so paranoid.

See, that’s the point. I run OS X without all of that rigamarole you have “just” been doing. When I click on a link I don’t worry about “attachments from odd sources” - if anything tries to run that I didn’t ask for, OS X will straitly warn me about it. I don’t go looking for “odd source” free stuff, of course. And I don’t run as a admin privileged user unless I’m loading software intentionally.

You talk about the things you “just” do that I am trusting that I don’t have to do under Unix/OS X - and then you call me paranoid.

But to do all that trusting I have to see through the FUD which everyone who actually is functionally paranoid (including you) has a motive to throw at Unix users out of, basically, jealousy.

And to help me see thru that FUD I trust Swordmaker. A lot. That’s why it is well worth my while to be on his ping list. At least one reason . . .