[Porsche-O-Phile]

Adobe flash is probably the single worst security vulnerability anyone can put on a computer. Simply awful pig piece of software. I truly hate it and block 99.9% of flash content on web sites anyway (click to flash plug-in gets rid of a lot of the dumb ads, embedded video junk, dancing clowns and other silly bandwidth suckers, no to mention potential security issues). The constant need to install updates ((like once or twice a week) underscores how vulnerable it is.

Of course most people want it for their web porn viewing though...

Isn't there suspicion that anti-virus companies (Kaspersky in particular) are paying hackers to create new viruses and malware programs simply to force people to buy their software kind of like a digital protection racket where the mob boss is paying the thugs and the gangsters who fight them / run them off? I recall reading something about that recently (and frankly it seems quite plausible to me).