i'd like to agree with that, i'm a bit fed up of people 'who know everything and aren't afraid to tell you they are the best' telling people that you may as well just not use an antivirus instead of using one 'i would never use' at the end of the day, some protection even if its not the best, is better than none! and to those who insist they ahve used a computer for sixty thousand years and never had a virus, i guess thats because you are a super user and know everyfile in and out and how it works and commuicates with other files, as how can you know for sure you have no virus, if you have never run a virus scanner to enforce that fact? not all viruses are obvious they are there. Most people (ie normal peopel) just want there computer to email, use im and game on, they do'nt want to spend all there time checking files or logs for virus's, after all, at the end of the day they paid for a big paperwait to play solitare on, it should dam well play solitaire and if a virus comes on the computer it should dam well sort it out not to interupt solitiare! You bet buddy! even if its not "recently updated" its better than nothing! i have proved this... listen to my story....I was working on my friends computer and her anti-virus was not updated for many months, i did a on-line virus scan and, surprise surprise, NO VIRUSES! BUT>>>> I am not saying it is OK to go without updating your anti-virus for a month or even A WEEK! UPDATE EVERY DAY! or schedule it too