heh, this reminds me of a very recent discussion that me, xeriox, and the specialist had, it can be found here:

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=266870

The level of effort and knowledge required to secure your system to be 'virus proof' is beyond most peoples abilities or desire. I could probably take a decent shot at it myself...but I have better things to spend my time on. Especially when you can get rock solid, low overhead programs like AVG or ezAv for free.
don't forget about avast! .