REALLLLYYYY.... Interesting. I suggest you do some research on anti-virus web sites regarding Windows security. Everyone I've looked at says Windows is most secure OS. If you get lots of trojans and viruses, you must be doing something quite different from me. I have rarely run into an issue, and then it comes from a web site.

Many tablets will be WindowsRT based. It's completely sandboxed, similar to the iPad, in that you can only install apps from the Windows store and each runs in its own sandbox. How it works is VERY different from Windows we know.

Windows 8 Pro has built-in protection. I have not installed additional AV. I've hit a couple of sites that tried to push things, but the built-in protection cleaned it up just fine.

If its malware issues that have you most concerned, stay far away from Android. The ecosystem is a mess. It makes past Windows issues look like Fort Knox.

>My main reason not to consider MS tablet is I don't trust the security of MS computers and it translates into device or anything that uses MS-based OS. I have spent too many hours dealing with viruses and Trojans on my PC that it really turned me into an anti-MS-OS person. I have to use it on my PC; this is my job. But on a device that I would be using for fun, no way.