The virus is the software.
Harnish Newlands, blogging aboard his Cardboard Spaceship has this gem outlining a frustrating experience with McAffee. The post would be funny, if it weren’t so true, and I’ve had the exact same experience. My favorite part is the last two lines:
It really takes a lot of ingenuity to loose free cash, and that's what McAfee managed to do. If anyone from McAfee reads this, you need to go and kick your on-line sales head up the arse, and a good hard one.