OK, so follow me here. If a company that made guns issued a report that said that criminals were buying guns at an unprecedented rate, and that unarmed civilians were far more likely to be victims of violent crime, would alarm bells go off in your head if newspapers ran it whole-cloth as a news story without qualification?
Why is it, then, that whenever a company that makes virus protection software puts out a report on the proliferation of viruses, their findings get republished almost verbatim with complete credulity?
I'm not saying it's not happening, but I'm getting sick of people running around saying the sky is falling everytime they do this. The exaggerations of the virus-protection industry have been well documented (including one gentleman whose name escapes me, who created a 'virus' [whose sole effect on the computer in question was to sit there, and which didn't even replicate itself] which he then submitted with a virus report to a well-known company, only to find it listed, in future updates, as a highly severe and very prevalent virus).
Whatever happened to 'question everything'?
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