Either this guy is stuck on Windows Me, or he's downloading too much porn.
No, actually just through normal use the drives fragment enough over time that reformatting becomes unavoidable.
Even so, that doesn't affect my Mac. :-)
Or maybe he USES his computer....
I know many people with at least a reasonable degree of computer competence, who use their computers quite a bit, who do not visit port sites, or otherwise risky interntet activities..yet they have very similar experiences to the one related in the story.
The only folks I know who don't have similar problems are those who use their computer VERY little and/or are anal about running anti-spyware and anti-virus software - and really dig around to keep caches and other accumulated rubble cleaned-up.
The writer of the article has come to the realization that teh user shouldn't HAVE to be that involved in keeping his computer working....