so sick of this topic (Score 1)

why can't we put this topic to rest? seriously, anyone who connects an any box directly to any network in today's landscape without atleast a hardware/software firewall, anti virus and their os upgraded to the latest rev is asking for trouble. i just find it amazing that i spend somewhere around 8 hours a day connected with a winxp box and have NEVER had a virus, worm, been a zombie, etc. either i'm incredibly lucky (not) or i have the where withall not to go to every porn or russian software site in the first four minutes of setting up a box. whatever...