Hail, how are you gentlemen ?

I really dont know much... i know the basic, i think i can survive... what i am going to do now is reinstall my windows 98 se, as always i will choose 0 additional components in the setup, i wont update the applications that come with the os like windows media player, im not going to install microsoft office, and i will only download the critical\security updates. I really want to avoid contact with microsoft at most.

But the difrence now is that i am not going to install norton internet security:

Anti-virus: Well i know what i cant open... i know wich files are dangerous... i think i can survive, i dont really download any warez, only issos, ant those dont have virus... else, i dont think i will have any problem about ,exe files and about the others... i just remove them

Firewall: well... the thing is that i made many only tests with the firewall turned off and they all said i was secure.

Why do i want to do this ? you may think this reason sucks, but it means much to me, i dont like norton... too many files, too many files, too many files! i like to have control and this thing even sometimes gives me problems with cookies and websites, etc... ... please understand i REALLY dont want norton.
As i said i think i dont play with security, all my cofigurations are set not to save passwords or cookies, what i fear is access to my computer because i have 2 cable connections for my 2 computers each one with one connection, and they are networked to each other by ethernet cards, so each computer = 2 card, and each of them have the drives shared with full access (c:\ d:\)... the thing is that all the tests said i was safe

I want your comments... and can you tell me more sites do test ? any help would be welcome, thanks.

Farewell