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Originally posted by Jim
Just for the record...I got rid of outlook a long time ago. I use Eudora and never open attachments unless I know what they are in advance. And, I would never run without a firewall and virus protection. For the few days I did...I received over 23 viruses.

Opti...just for the hell of it, go to norton and use their free tool to look for viruses. I would be willing to bet you have over 50 running right now.

I am actually pretty careful.. and I run this test pretty regularly

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

I do recieve a lot of virus attachment to emails but i use a really good local email filter called spamkiller and am just very careful about what I do.

Once upon a time I took the time to use the websitegarage.com security check tune up and read everything on what security settings did what and how to setup your machine so it doesnt attract attention from scanners... a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing but it gave me enough confidence to not use Norton.. I know it's a risk saying this.. but I havent had a virus since.

I'm not suggesting other people not use norton.. but I regularly grind my 2.4ghz 1gb ram pc to a halt and it really is worth it not to have norton taking 10% of system resources and slowing down drive operation if I dont absolutely have to.

This is a good thread!

Hey does anyone believe the myth that a lot of the biggest anti virus companies where started out by people who were writing the same virusses they were protecting against?