Agreed, but provided you're careful about what you download it can be ok. I do tend to run adaware at least once a week and my AV software seems to catch most untoward activity (of the trojan, dodgy popups, weird installers etc). But I guess it's just my cavalier attitude to life
Merrin
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out of interest which sf firewall would you suggest then, ZA my opnion is above, I did used to run something I think was called Kaspersky (spelling?)