Hahah ok I'm just nitpicking here, but I think as far as not changing oil goes you do cause trouble for others. If your oil isn't clean more toxins get released into the atmosphere. Ok, but seriously though...
Not every infected computer is doing damage to others. Maybe some are used in DOS's, others are part of botnets, but it's not like they're all doing real damage. I suppose you can make arguments that they are sapping up bandwidth and therefore sapping up money and so on, but I guess my real disagreement with Scott is that we're attacking the wrong part of the problem. What are the underlying causes of almost all of these infected computers? Shoddy coding! Let's try and fix the code. For one, even the most rigorous security minded user can be completely owned by a 0day browser bug. How many people were owned by the wmf bug? Do you think that everyone was going to trust the patch by (forgot his name) and install it? I'm sure plenty of people didn't even know it existed. Making people get licenses is just not the right solution. Even if they do go through the motions, they can just completely ignore the crap and do as they please after.

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