Feanor

The national bank communicates that italian public debt in February was: 1.623 billion euros.
That is 1.623.000.000.000 euros. Considered there are about 60 million Italians, each Italian, included newborns, has got 27.050 euros of debt.

You have got this cool antivirus, you make it scanning your hard disk and it opens a dialog saying "I've found the virus "XYZ" in the file "XKW", what do you want me to do: "repair", "quarantine", "erase", "ignore". Now, for your information: if you select "quarantine" or "erase" the antivirus will NOT eliminate the virus but it will move the whole file in a trash can (the quarantine) or eliminate the file behyond recovery (erase). Repair is not always possible, most of the times you aren't presented this option. Now, what is the problem? The antivirus often is not able to "separate" the virus from the file that contains it, that is particularly bad when, for example, the file is your whole inbox, the single file that stores all your incoming mail. It is not necessary to remove a virus from a "container" if you aren't going to save or execute anything out of it, the virus stays "silent". Plus the antivirus is usually able to intercept the virus when it is executed. So pay attention to not do un-necessary damages. Pick IGNORE and live happily with your silent virus.

Read this blog post, it tells about the future of the Web, what the game is and who the players are.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2008/05/its_not_about_t.html

My question is: how many people care of the Web or even understand the true nature of the issue? You can't save people who don't want to be saved.

None.
I've been trying the main 3 free antivirus, AVG, AVAST and ANTIVIR. Now, AVG version 8 doesn't even install correctly on Win2K (scheduler and updater are disabled), ANTIVIR sucks a lot of resources, takes forever to open dialogs and gives me a BSOD from time to time (probably only when it finds some other software running, do not know which), AVAST is the most complicated antivirus ever, with several resident modules for monitoring different activities, a skinnable GUI, options distributed in "hard to find" dialogs here and here. On top AVAST misses heuristics besides the mail module.
At the end, given the catastrofic failures of AVG and ANTIVIR I am using AVAST, with the bare minimum of modules installed but thinking of living without any "on access" scanner and use CLAMAV (ported to Win) from time to time.

Edit: did I say AVAST? So far I got this interesting "features":
1. scanning my 170MB Thunderbird mailbox it generates 2 or 3 120MB temp files, if I stop the scanning before it ends those temp files are left on the disk in the _avast_ directory. It seems also that after creating those files AVAST doesn't actually do anything, skipping the content. On a side note, ClamAV does the same with temporary files if you "cancel" before completion.
2. there is a feature to block (it asks for authorisation) writing of executable files, unfortunately it is triggered also by directories whose name is "mario.com" and some software installers create such folders, for example TopStyle. An alert is risen any time you access a dir if some subdir has such names.
3. automatic updates of the virus signatures can cripple the scanning engine.

In case your mail client doens't have an embedded spam filter, or it doens't work well enough, you can use this very nice FREE (modified GPL) tool, courtesy of a german guy, Michel Krämer, that sits between the mail client and the Internet and filters all your spam.
Grab it here: http://www.spamihilator.com/
The program works with almost every E-Mail client, such as Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc.