[citation][nom]cruiseoveride[/nom]Anti-virus is just propaganda. Like the Windows blackouts. They just want you to think you are being safe.[/citation]
How do you figure? Go download porn and pirated software on the web and on bittorrent for a few hours on a machine w/out A/V and then do it on a machine with A/V. One machine will, strangely, be running much better. (although it
will bother you incessantly saying that its busy deleting some file out of your Temporary Internets Files folder or...something about a virus?...i dunno)
They may not be perfect, hell...the A/V companies may write the viruses themselves. Either way, the viruses exist and the A/V will stop many of them... so.....
Man, talk about making baseless statements!