Inconsistent Reporting of Free Space on the HDD

Activity Monitor shows Disk Usage as follows: Space utilized = 397.48 GB and Space free = 101.77 GB.
About This Mac - Storage indicates 101.5 GB Free and 164.46 GB Backups (???).
Right clicking on Macintosh HD in Finder and then on Get info reports: Used = 233.28 GB and Available = 265.97 GB.
Why the discrepancy? I believe the latter is more correct but what is going on? Or, do I have a virus or something eating up the free space on my hard drive? These discrepancies did not exist before in Snow Leopard.
What gives?...

Michael9009 wrote:
Thanks, it all makes sense.
But it is still not clear to me why Apple made this so confusing. For example, I think that both the Activity Monitor and Finder should report the same values, i.e. the Activity Monitor should not include the backups.
The Activity Monitor is a administration utility and have to show complete values, e.g. for troubleshooting.
Finder is a user utility and have to show the available space for a user, regardless of files like backups, swap, trash or cache that will be shrink or deleted when the space become less or needed to store user data.
Lupunus
Message was edited by: lupunus (typo's fixed)

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