Tonight, he was going nuclear.
He had just been burned. Badly. The "Free Antivirus 2012" he’d downloaded last month wasn’t free; it was a digital Trojan horse that had turned his machine into a zombie spewing spam. His bank had called. His email had been locked. It was humiliating.
He checked Task Manager. On his old AV, idle RAM usage was 50MB. Kaspersky 2013? It was chewing up . The fan on his CPU whirred a little louder. It was heavy. You felt it. Opening a folder with 500 high-res images took an extra half-second. It was like walking through knee-deep snow.