Exactly! And you know what galls me? The same Microsoft characters have vociferous outcrys against the NSA as if they want to protect your privacy! Yeah, fat chance!

A word of warning about the "non-viral" computers. They do the same thing, but it's incorporated in their operating system, not a virus you catch. One example is the "location services". Therein is a catch 22 because if you use your iphone, for navigation, you need that service. But they can also track that at the other end.

Right now I feel safest with Linux, although nothing is perfectly private. At least I have control over my computer without fearing and walking on eggshells that any Tom, Dick or Harry can drop something on my computer with a simple "drive-by" visit by accident to a nefarious site.