here’s a story for you.
once upon a time this dude went out and bought a computer. so he took it home and it came with a 3 month trial of norton antivirus. so he uses it for 3 months, and when it expires he decides he doesn’t want to pay to continue using norton, so he downloads avg and installs that. heaven forbid a virus enter this “brand new” computer so he makes sure that windows firewall is turned on, as well as norton’s, email scanning options for both norton and avg are enabled, and just to make sure that everything is fine he decides to get the free version of zone alarm and click no to every alert that pops up. ah yes, his system is secure and nothing will be attacking him! hey wait, why can’t he check his email? norton never caused him any problems before! whatever could be wrong?
it’s a sad tale that is truer than anyone could ever imagine, and i hear it at least 5-6 times a day.