Quote Originally Posted by Dreadbelly
It is my own opinion that the virus protection companies and M$ are all in cahoots with one another, each one having a black ops team that writes destructive viral infections to undermine each other's software thus keeping all of them in business and making PILES of money from people who keep shelling it out hand over fist.
I don't agree here, though I do think there are probably Luddites within some of these companies (particularly Microsoft) who write viruses as their own form of social protest.

I think the thing that really gets MS in trouble, honestly, is that they are trying so hard to make Windows and Office do EVERYTHING that they leave it full of holes, holes that are needed to make it do everything and be open to everything.

Some viruses are so well written to take advantage of certain features that they could have only been written by somebody with inside information. I realise this is circumstancial evidence at best, but it's enough for me.
Having been in the IT business for going on 11 years now, I can tell you that there are plenty of programmers who are simply that good at this stuff. It's sort of scary.

I work with MS stuff at my job but have an iMac at home. Best computer I ever owned. Plus it looks like R2D2 with a TV on his head.