And that, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the many reasons I went back to a Mac. It cost me a little more up front but, like a Triumph, it just keeps running. Disseminating viruses should be a hanging offense. String up a few malicious geeks on the public square as examples to the rest and this problem would go away. On the other hand, I wonder if the anti-virus companies don't pay people to do it just to keep their sales up. Sort of like the companies that make both cop radars and radar detectors.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.