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Originally Posted by Scott
I don't use one because of these reasons:
1. I have never caught a virus from having the internet for 6 years
2. Why waste CPU cycles that could be re-cycled for something else (CPDN)
3. Even if I have 1.28GB memory, I hate anti-virus software doing loads of I/O activity on my drives
That's why I don't use one.
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You will use one once you've caught a virus like Nimda or Code Red and the only way of cleaning your system is a reformat and reinstall. E-Trust uses no CPU cycles while idle and only 3 meg of memory whilst resident. I don't run full scans as I install AV software as soon as I install an OS so I never worry about it taking up processor time.