It’s more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

The latest variants of Bozori even remove competing viruses like Zotob from the infected machines.

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.

Alternative services would mean that there would be services available to compete with Google, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Skype, etc., and they would be run by companies not based in the U.S.A. The rest of the world has simply failed in being able to compete with them, and we really should be doing better here.

This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it might affect your USB thumb drives, external hard drives and network drives. Also, if you're taking daily automatic backups, you might end up backing up the corrupted files over good files.

If you run a Mac right now, you don't need antivirus. If you want to be safer, you should be using software that other people are not using.

If you invest in a security product and if you have a large company, it costs you a lot. And if it works perfectly, you have no problem, which means you don't see the product at all. You pay lots of money, but you don't see any results.