Well, call me suspicious, My sister got like 3 bad viruses on her computer. She never goes to strange sites, just likes to go to store sites like Sears, Home Depot, Staples, Canadian Tire etc. She got like 3 very bad viruses, one that prohibits her from going to any anti virus site on the net.
I go to many of the same sites as her but never get viruses.. I HAVE NO Anti-virus software installed. I haven't gotten any virus in the last 20 years. she HAS Anti-virus software installed (paid for, not the free stuff and a well known company) and gets viruses all the time. Seems like every other month she is in a virus pickle jar.
Call me paranoid but I don't believe in coincidences, I strongly suspect that some anti-virus software companies spread viruses in order to promote their latest and best virus killer. After all who else benefits from the nasty viruses out there? And seeing that both my bro and sis get viruses from time to time and they both have different anti-virus software installed. leads me to this conclusion. I mean really, has common sense been removed from the general public to the point where they feel the need to 'reply yes' to every pop-up message they get in windows or while browsing?
I am paranoid and don't believe in coincidences.
Cheers!
P.S. Oh as per my usual, when she got her latest set of viruses I scanned my PC with home housecall from Trend Micro..(an online virus scanner) it found none,.. then installed and scanned with Avast! it found none, (I have automatic and 'live' scans turned off) then with spybot search and destroy, it found none, then SuperAntiSpyware.. it found 3 suspicious cookies. I have none of these running at bootup, I only run the scans manually when these things happen. So I have no 'active' anti virus running. but I seem to remain virus free. Did I say I'm suspicious and paranoid about active anti-virus software?