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Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses 
and worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, February 4, 2005

Then, something happened. Something attacked. Something swarmed her 
computer the instant she tried to move around online and the computer 
slowed and bogged and cluttered and crashed, and multiple restarts and 
debuggings and what-the-hells only brought up only a flood of 
nightmarish pop-up windows and terrifying error messages and massive 
system slowdowns and all manner of inexplicable claims of infestation of 
this worm and that Trojan horse and did we want to buy McAfee AntiVirus 
protection for $39.95?

Four minutes. And she was already DOA.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/04/notes020405.DTL