This point sounds like it wasn't thought out very well:

"In fact, if I were to simply track the 30 pieces of Goodness on my machine, and allow nothing else to run, I would have simultaneously solved the following problems:"

Well, yes. If you're like your mum, dad or granparents and barely install new software at all it could work fine.

Not so much if you're a web developer that regularly installs new software to make your dev environment easier to use or you like playing computer games (even less those available through digital services/on sale/made by amateurs or fans).

Cause in cases like those, I can see any 'good apps' list rivalling the virus ones in the anti virus programs he mentions.