Re: Scams?
"Having said that, isn't in now sad where we live in a society where if something is this defective, instead of complaining to the manufacturer, we instead automatically expect to pay for virus protection?"
So you're saying that any OS that is vulnerable to viruses is defective?
Seem you would have to add MacOS X (macOS) and all the various flavors of Linux to the mix as well as iOS and Android.
Which shows that you haven't really thought through your statement, have you?
Expecting perfection from incredibly non-trivial (but nonetheless useful) systems is completely pointless. How would one even know that a product is vulnerable in the first place unless millions of units are in the wild and eventually attacked by the bad guys?
Of course, you can wait for the perfect system and opt out of the current rash of "defective" software...