It must be terrible to go through life so fearful. I suppose you also believe in gun control.
Here's a clue: anyone who has a virus scanner and turnd on the built in firewall in Windows XP and loads the recommended updates will never get these bugs. All of the recent infestations have hit people who refused to update.
Adwar is a different issue. You actually have to have the sense to say no to offers of free stuff.
Well, I know one school faculty you can eliminate from the "good sense" category, then. I spent part of the afternoon hooking some scan converters up to the computers and televisions in a couple of classrooms this afternoon. And oh my God were they the most bug-infested things I've ever seen - Xupiter toolbars and Comet Cursors and Gatorware everywhere, on every single machine I saw there. I literally felt dirty just touching the things to plug a VGA cable in. I didn't have the heart to tell the IT guy there that his computers were more full of holes than a shotgunned Swiss cheese...