Realize that Android and Macs have virus writers targeting them both too. The more popular an OS is, the more criminals and vandals will be writing for them. There are software packages that do tell you what's going out and to where, but really whatever happened to being used like a tv, without makers and websites monitoring what you're doing and looking at?

Also some warning news about the update and install of Win 10. Windows 10 "borrows" some ideas from Linux and Bit Torrent. Windows 10 will (at least the early versions pre-release) function like Bit Torrent, sharing your update and install. No personal info is shared. Imagine you download the updates to a temp folder, well the contents of the temp folder are shared among other MS users to make the installs go faster. Downside is this does use up your bandwidth (upload). I believe it was talked about a way to turn this "feature" off.

There's a metaphor here about one company having the lions share of the market place and doing whatever it wants (ignoring most consumer's). It used to be (and kind of still is) AT&T as controlling most phones in the US. On a side note, to those who say I don't use AT&T, unlucky Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint and T-Mobile users discovered that when a certain piece of AT&T equipment goes down, that their networks go down as well. In this recent case, almost all telecommunications in the state it happened were using one piece of AT&T for  their networks.  This happened August 5th throughout Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama due to a hardware failure in backhaul network.

The dust settled, thinking "what a fine home, at least for now" not realizing that doom would soon be coming in the form of a vacuum cleaner.