You're probably right. And a good AV program is fast becoming one of the most important to have if you spend much, or really any time on the internet.
If ever there was a program that is worth biting the bullet and paying for I'd say it would be to obtain a good AV program.
I've got a new machine that came with Norton 2009 pre-loaded, and free for 60 days and it's as good as everyone has talked about. You don't even know it's there unless it tells you it is and that's a big step for Norton. I had one of their programs that's a couple years old and it just bogged the machine down. Nobody liked their stuff. But whatever the problems were that caused it to use up so many resources they've fixed it.
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