Lol, I checked my old computer the other day - which we never had anti-virus on - and found over 1000 worms, 200 trojans and dozens of viruses. And yet it still worked! Although it was very laggy.
Finally finding about some of the bots that are flooding the users online - bytespider apparently is a huge offender here - ignores robots.txt and comes in from a ton of different IPs
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.