<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>1. Clicking <b><u>AND RUNNING</u></b> the executable on an e-mail. Looking at an e-mail won't do anything, unless you have a really old and unpatched version of Outlook Express. (And then I ask "Why the fuck are you using Outlook Express?!")
2. Clicking <b><u>AND RUNNING</u></b> an executable on the web. In the case of a virus, nobody is stupid enough to leave a paper trail like that and leave a virus on the web. That's just asking for persecution. Even then, why are you going to a site that HAS a virus on its page?! In the case of spyware, it has to have a EULA that says its spyware. If it's a program I don't know, I skim through the EULA, just to be sure.
3. Running an unpatched version of 2000/XP with the broken RPC code, or running an unpatched version of IIS. The former should be patched, and the latter shouldn't be running at all. In any case, spyware is not going to sneak in like this (no EULA), and there's just a few viruses that do this. In any case, the Windows Updater saves your ass on this one.
That's it. There is no other method. Viruses don't come in through your keyboard or speaker wire, or magically execute themselves just by looking at it. Spyware does not enter your system without your own permission, so don't give it your permission.</div>
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.