Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster - New York Times
On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer.
Puh-leeze. The ultimate in waste in the SUV society. And why was a Ph.D. in computer science using a computer without an antivirus program?