Originally Posted by
cordelli
To me that's like saying you will only put your seatbelt on when you get into an accident, there's no need for it the rest of the time as you have gone years without needing it.
In the case of virus and malware, it's way better to deal with it before it gets to your machine, than it is to try to fix it later. I'm all for prevention instead of cure in this case.
Totally agree. Except that anti-viruses are not a very good seat belt
A good security practice would be to run a less-common operating system (say, Linux, or BSD), possibly with a browser using a no-scripting extension.
Sadly, antiviruses today are less and less effective. A single antivirus will catch, on average, more or less half of the threats you may run into.
I could lecture on this for hours, mind you. It's my job
