kc0rkx_finch, I've never ever sent you any mails nor will I do so in the future. Why would I?

I know, it can be painful to realize that well-done and well-meant are quite different. It is very common to give well-meant advises which seem to be useful and may actually work sometimes under the right conditions. Unfortunately, such advises come with bad side-effects like causing a false sense of security, confusing hacks with The Right Thing(TM), ignorance of reasonable concepts to keep your computer safe etc. Like usually, The Right Thing(TM) is often less comfortable than some botch but in the long run the former is a clear winner.

It's too bad that these pseudo-experts are ubiquitous all over the web. You can't fight them all without becoming a modern Don Quixote. This is really bad because it'll spoil the majority of people. Most people know very little about computers and how to use the internet properly. You cannot blame them at all because nobody teaches them. We're living in the mediaeval times of computer technology and people have more trust in computer "religion" than computer science. Virus scanners and other snake oil is the modern incarnation of excorcism.