I guess when your trying to inform the general public about something, you need a 'boffin' and in RTE's case, someone cheap, Vincent fits into the cheap category well, and if you where to ask him about say a Linux Kernel Panic or OpenBSD he'd mumble something nonsensical.

I agree that the public as a whole needs much better security advice, but the problem is that scaring people into buying anti-virus software is very easy and profitable.

So as has been the prayer of every free desktop user for many many years, "Next year, will be the year of the free desktop"