I've had exactly one (1) virus, because I explicitly downloaded it, because I got something that I thought was infected. I handled that file very carefully, then posted it to e-mail (because my outgoing e-mail has a virus scanner), and it confirmed it was. I then expunged that file (not just dragging it to the wastebasket, but physically deleting it). That's been over the last, oh, 30 years. One of the reasons I've never had a problem is I almost never use Internet Explorer. We don't need a new Internet, we just need better design of some of the tools as well as changes to the way some things are done. For example, one of the thing that defeats spambots but not legitimate mail servers is the giving of a temporary failure on the first try to deliver mail; the spambot is in a hurry to send lots of mail, doesn't retry and goes away; the ordinary mail server actually reads the message and does a retry.