You force your computer to have unprotected sex with other computers?! I can't believe you. That's truly awful.
Okay, a bit of hyperbole, but it's warranted. There is no reason for viruses to be as rampant as they are today. Just today, a professor in the Computer Science department sent me a Microsoft Word document. Have you lost your mind? I wouldn't open a Word document sent by the President himself, even if the NSA had certified that it was clean. That'd be like me forcing my computer to have sex with every computer that the President's computer has ever taken a Word document from. No way. This just goes to show how few people, even of those that should be in know, don't know how disgustingly dangerous such seemingly innocuous things as Word files can be.
If you are in the nasty habit of downloading and installing software from the Internet, you're crazy. I do download and install software from the Internet, but I'm pretty selective about which stuff I'll install. Anything stored at Tucows, CNET, Download.com, etc. I wouldn't touch with a full-body condom. Yuck.
Anyway, all of this to say don't exchange any Microsoft documents, they're great carriers of every computerized STD (VDs for you old timers) you can imagine. And don't download useless crap from the Internet, it's the same thing. You may think you use a condom (antivirus/anti-adware software), but nothing is going to be as safe as abstinence. So, stay clean and don't be a pimp for your computer.
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