Stop twisting my words. I never said anything like you turned my words into.

Of course people should run AV software, but my response was about the size of the industry, IMHO people should just run one of the countless FREE AV packages. Symantec and McAfee are in the business of scaring people, scaring people is what makes them money.

Just look at the Symantec and McAfee websites, they even have a "Global threat level indicator". Everything they do, from their red and yellow boxes to their websites is done to scare people into spending >$100 on their crap.

Or, do like I do and don't run one at all but know what you do when you surf, dump IE and Outlook and never open files from an unknown source.

I've NEVER had a virus or any kind of spyware because I keep my system up to date and don't do anything stupid. 99% of all infections are caused by stupidity or just being too damn naive about what you do, like the person that posted that she hooked her laptop up to a network and got infected. If you are going to hook a machine up to a lan you don't know then you'd better make sure you are well protected, you can hardly blame Windows if you get infected if you don't have basic protection, even the most basic of firewall/AV package would have stopped that problem.