Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Sep 2007 10:54 UTC, submitted by irbis
"For at least a decade, the standard advice to every computer user has been to run antivirus software. But new, more commercial, more complex and stealthier types of malware have people in the industry asking: will antivirus software be effective for much longer? Among the threats they see are malware that uses the ability of the latest processors to run virtual machines that would be hidden from antivirus programs." Note: Please note that our icon contest is still running! So if you have an idea on how to rework this story's icon, read this.
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2007-06-22
Except that viruses can still go on a rampage in the user accessible places (read: home directory) and in the worst case destroy all your data. Contrary to server maintainers I reckon that desktop users care much more about their data than the OS which can be easily replaced.