Are the days of “must-have” anti-virus gone? Reason I ask, a guy I was talking to at work was telling me that he doesn’t have any anti-virus software on his computer, never had a virus, and he said probably won’t ever. Of course, being curious, I asked what do you do with your computer? He said that he plays mmorpgs, surfs the web, but doesn’t really download anything. I asked him if his computer seemed to run slow or anything of the sort and he quickly said, no my computer is really fast. He said he has a quad-core processor, 8g ram, and running Windows Vista. He also mentioned that he’s never had any problems with Vista. He does use a firewall, which I was thinking you must have a firewall, but I was also thinking the only reason you wouldn’t need ant-virus software would be if you practiced good web surfing habits and maybe got online just every now and then. I know that with Windows Vista, Microsoft implemented a lot of safety features; what are your opinions? Of course, running Linux you probably wouldn’t need AV software, but this guy uses Vista. I tend to lean towards having anti-virus software on a computer, but maybe I’m too cautious?
Thoughts? Opinions on the subject?