Community poll forum: How many viruses or Trojan horses wreaked havoc in 2005?

I use a concoction of programs to remove them from my pc. However, I've seen dozen of computer from clients who have at least 80 viruses, trojans, etc.

I have only seen three viruses since 1992. I was lucky enough to intersept by having constant updated subscriptions. I also run spyware programs. I would run a couple to stop all of them.

I use Zone Alarm pro (with their spyware and anti virus add ons), AVG, The Shield Pro, Bit Defender and Panda. Thats abit over the top I hear you all shout, and you might be right.
I have 5 teenagers almost permanently connected to the internet all networked via this pc downstairs, (thanx for the networking courses), can you put a price on peace of mind?

Our Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security (2005, later 2006 version) has intercepted a few critters but nothing has caused any havoc. We have an ADSL modem with a wireless gateway. And believe me, I never click on an attachment without knowing who sent it. I do consider that we have been lucky, I admit.

I have two 17" PowerBooks. I have had the one for almost 3 years. I bought my other one in April of '05. I don't have virus protection on either computer and have not gotten any viruses to date. Maybe it's a Windows thing or maybe I am just stinkin' lucky. But I have to say that I don't hear of too many, if any, people talking about their Macs being infected. Go figure.

My secret is McAfee personal Firewall and Virus Scan
In addition I am also using Ad-Aware Pro and SpywareBlaster, also I am using Ad-Watch. For 3 years I had never had any viruses or any type of threaths.

none. I use zone alarm,avg free edition,ad-aware se

I owe it all to McAfee ASAP.

None. Thanks to KAV (Kaspersky Anti-Virus), Kaspersky Anti-Hacker and a several anti-spyware programmes which overlap. Keeping these updated is part of the daily routine. So even though KAV has caught & deleted a couple hiding in emails and software downloads over the past year, nothing has got by the defences. Fingers crossed and definitions updated.

get some self updating utilities. i have two windows machines connected to dsl that have no problems thanks to my CA antivirus and microsoft antispy and webroot, which self update themselves. save yourself some time and get them.

Once on my computer and a separate account belonging to my wife we had almost all mail duplicated causing us at least an hour's work to clean up our home mail and the mail on the server. We did not check further but apparently the computer center cleaned it up. Could have been worse but we are trying to keep the mail count low on the server and that was good for this type of infection.
We both have Mac systems and keep up with our virus protection, as well as not opening suspicious mail of which there is a considerable amount.

I have a Mac. It has OS X 10.4.3 (TIGER)
In fact I've never had any of these pests sice 1984 when I used my first Mac!

Why? because I have many security programs, along with using Opera and Firefox. Here are some of my security programs.
AVG Pro.
Zone Alarm Free.
Ewido Plus.
MSAS.
AdAware SE Custom setting with VX2 Cleaner.
Spybot S & D
SpywareBlaster.
SpywareGuard.
CCleaner
These are just some of what I use.
All are the latest versions fully updated.
WXP Home SP2 Used very seldom, but also fully updated.
Larry

It's expensive,,, but I've NEVER had anything get by it on any of the SBS networks I use it on. Nuff said.