tdr

1) if it’s so simple, why isn’t it done yet? And no trade-offs?

2) references please (for you arguments)

Entrepreneurship is learned by doing it.

Investment is diversification-driven.

Put these 2 things together and you minimize a lot of risk.

used to think more-or-less the same thing: antiviruses are unneeded resource hogs...

until I connected my laptop to the network at school.

I didn't notice anything strange until a month later when I reinstalled WinXP (was doing it regularly for speed). My mistake was that I installed Winamp and other software from kits on a shared folder (full access for everybody) on my laptop, before installing the AV. That's when all hell broke loose: the kits were injected by some virus and got activated only when were run

tl;dr: Thing is even "power-users" can get it wrong. Is it really worth it risk so much, for so little?

PS: referring here strictly to platforms that need AVs