I'd like to pop in on this real quick, because I want to point out something I think is fairly important:

First off, Nihil kind of brought this up already, but I want to elaborate a little on this:

Anti Virus Programs USED to be a pretty good idea to add to your Computer, running Windows, because once upon a time, they matter a LOT more.

The problem comes from the fact that the days of having to actually open an Email, download an attachment, and THEN you got infected, are LONG gone. Today, you aren't really going to see very many "JUST" Anti Virus Products on the Shelf of wherever you go to buy software.

When I first started getting into Computers you could walk into Best Buy, and see Norton Anti Virus, McAfee Anti Virus, and a few more on the Shelf, and buy them, take them home, and install them.

It was JUST Anti Virus though. Today, go into the same place, and, it's ALL Security Suites. Now don't get me wrong, we had those back then too, but they were generally bundled Anti Virus and Firewall Combos.

Today, the same thing is an Anti Virus program, a program to watch for Malware and Spyware, AND the Firewall. The price of this **** has gone up too. I remember buying a version of Norton for like 30 dollars or so.

The problem is, you don't have many Viruses running around now, because most problems and infections, are usually Tracking Cookies, and web sites loaded up with Spyware or Malware or something else.

Also of concern is the fact that Anti Virus software doesn't exactly help THAT much. I mean, Nihil was saying 40%, and though I don't know off hand what the hit rate is of any given product, I'd say he's probably being generous as well. You'd be lucky if an off the shelf Anti Virus program managed to find even 25% of the **** in the Wild.

Anyway, I just wanted to weigh in on that. I wouldn't bother wasting my money on this stuff.

I have multiple Computers on my Network, but only ONE of them even has a single Windows Partition. And that is THIS Computer. It came with Windows 7, and I left it on there, even though I shrank the HD size in half, and, even right now, I haven't booted into Windows in a while.

I use mainly Linux and BSD.