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I guess I’m doing it wrong.

I don’t get viruses on my Windows machines, and they all run fine. Vista runs well, W7 runs well, XP, 2000 Pro, ME and, no I finally ditched the Windows 98 and 95 installations.

I never get viruses. I no longer use any anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-crapware of any kind. I’m behind a router/firewall. That’s it.

I have had bluescreens on all but Vista, and W7. I’ve had kernel panics on many of the LInux distros I’ve tried.

Linux is no easier than Windows, but it’s kind of fun. In fact, many is the time Linux needs extra work during an installation that Windows does automatically, especially W7! The release candidate nearly installed itself. I have way less concern about any infection using Linux, but I don’t get any using Windows.

I’ve had two viruses in all my computing years, both because I downloaded a “free” game off of a questionable website. I.e. I invited it onto my computer. I don’t do that anymore, and all is well.

There is an irreducible threat to all computers under any operating system - the user him/her self. A Trojan Horse program can sucker a user into doing something stupid, and there's no telling what that might do to his system.
In fact, I have to confess that that once happened to me. But the reason the Trojan attack worked was that I was paranoid about viruses. No credible virus threat, no success with that particular trojan.
Consequently, although a Mac is just as vulnerable to a trojan as a PC is, I as a user of a Mac am less vulnerable to a trojan than I was as a user of a PC. Less stress, more fun, less vulnerability. Add in graceful hardware design, and good quality backed by good customer service that I can look in the eye, and you have a package that is worth more than the sum of its parts. To me. And at least until Obama gets to it, it's still my money.