I thouroughly believe that almost all of the spyware/malware/virus' out there are being distributed by the anti-spyware companies. How else can they have a clean-up tool for it the day after it's identified?
How would they stay in business if they don't create their own demand?
Ah, the conspiracy theories.
...virus protection programs today? Seems that Malware, Spyware and Trojans are today's maladies du jour. I can't remember when I have had a virus but I sure remember the pain and hassle of recent severe infections of the above.
Not so much a conspiracy theorist as a realist...
Ben Franklin once said "Three can keep a secret if two are dead".
Tens of thousands of people have previously worked, or are currently working for Companies, that make AV products.
Yet all this time, each and every one of them, has managed to remain mum, on this dark revelation.