If I bought a CRAY super computer will CA be faster?

[Gary Doski]

Gary, the key word here is "need" as opposed to prefer. I simply got very tired of the usual Anti-virus, spam, male-ware, Trojans, subscriptions, and everything else the industry has insisted we need in order to be "safe" from hackers and their ilk. All of this security nonsense can degrade a system's performance as you very well know.

So...My Chief machine has nothing. Literally. Just runs my apps and, never has a problem. It never needs updates either (turned off).

My Web machine handles the murky world of the bug and virus infested web! I don't care what happens and, interestingly enough nothing really ever has of any consequence. I did recently start using Microsoft's Anti virus software as it's free and really has no effect on performance.

Anyway, that's my preference.

Max, Many small businesses are using AVG free (recommended by IT guys). It does the job and it doesn't bother you unless you tell it to. They do ask you to upgrade to the paid version, just say no. Give it a shot!