Patrick got a phone call today from a potential customer asking about virus protection software. I thought his explanation was very unique:
Imagine you have a sponge. If you put your dry sponge into a Ziploc bag then put it into water, the bag will protect the sponge from getting wet. You’ve protected your sponge from damage from the very beginning.
On the other hand, if you wet the sponge, put it in a Ziploc bag then put the bag in water, the sponge is still wet. It has been pre-exposed to water before you placed it in the bag so the damage is already done.
What virus protection does is protect your PC from future viruses. An already affected PC has to be cleaned out completely before it can be properly protected. Protecting it from the start is the best way to go with any type of virus protection.
How cool is that? 
Jeff has decided to do NaNoWriMo with me!! The book we compose together will be from his imagination, I’m just the ghostwriter 
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I think I get it now!
I need to take my PC out in the yard, remove the covers and stray it down real good with a garden hose. Then I wipe it out with a dry sponge to get all those viruses out of it.
(Note: You can only debug your PC in summer ’cause in winter it will freeze up and when them bugs thaw out, they’ll be meaner than ever. He didn’t mention that, but it only stands to reason.)
Then you place the computer chassie on the hood of 1973 black F-100 (black gets hotter and it will dry out quicker, we’re all about time around here.) You prolly got at least one sittin’ up on blocks in those weeds out back of the chicken house.
That’s it! You fixed everything! (No need to put the covers back on it, it just keep the heat in there and burns out the transfuser quicker.)
Only real question I got: is it better to use some of that anti-fungal dishsoap to scrub ‘er out with or will regular ‘ol Spic-n-Spam do?
Oh, I almost forgot.
You wring that sponge out real good and seal it up in a ziplock back so none of them little devils can get out.
Some morning, when they think they’ve been forgotten, you just flip that bag into the tinder box on the cook stove while you’re baking biscuits.
That’ll get rid of those little bogers once and for all.