You are aware of how much of a good portion of attacks have come from an insider or half-wit users who propogate malware without even knowing or caring. I don't even let my own family, my own mother and father, enable the clipboard or install new software... hell, and thats just with the few computers they own, none of them are even mine. Its not that I don't trust them... its just that I've fixed things where in normal situations I would be paid for that type of thing. Anyone who would let adware sit around for years at a time is below me... and I will feel free to treat them as they truely are... pre-litterate, degenerate, barbarians.

I hate intrusive programs that want to tell me what to do. Or start on their own and usually a boot up, not caring if you want them to or not. Thats one of the things that turn me off about Nortons. Not only is it very intrusive, but it can be a real bear to uninstall. Yahoo messenger and its attendant programs is another I dislike, although with a little work you can disable most of it ( and yes I do have yahoo messenger, but a very scaled back version). Yahoo doesn't give you the option to install only part of the package that you want. Its all or nothing, and then you have to go back through it and uninstall the parts you don't want. It should give you the option of installing just the parts you want.
Now see, now this is the type of thing that is so funny about this thread... blame the computer, blame the software, blame the world, blame the man, blame the companies owned by the man, never to say to yourself "what an idiot I am".

Sure, its not your fault your having trouble pointing and clicking... it's the giant statues fault. You know, the talking and glowing statue everyone worships, right? Ahhhh yeah, Incompetence is bliss