Re: Do I Really Need an Antivirus Program?

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On Aug 13, 1:40 am, husky86 <husk...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have just about had it with all antivirus programs.  They slow down my
system, they cause problems with individual programs -- for instance Adobe
Acrobat 8.1 cannot convert webpages to PDF documents when antivirus programs
are installed -- and in general they just seem to make my computing
experience much more of a headache.

I have tried Norton, AVG, Avast, McAffee, and others (free and full-paid
editions).  Once I remove any of these programs from my system, it's like the
sun has come out, the rain and clouds have gone away, and everything
functions beautifully.

I know that this is an age-old question (at least in computer terms), but do
I really need an antivirus program running on my system?

Especially if I don't open any attachments from any known or unknown
senders, do I really need to have an antivirus program running in the
background?  Is it really essential?

Many thanks for any and all comments!

(I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate, by the way, with Microsoft Office 2007,
and Firefox 3 as my web browser.)

I don't use one and I been doing so now over a year . You guys say you
can get a virus just from from a website , like what kind of site ?
Because I have surf and view many sites without getting a virus. If
you mean sites from porn or anything like that I can see why but
where if not ? I want to open one of these site and see if I get a
virus , Yes I am asking to be infected . So where are these sites
normal people would get just by surfing the internet at ? Thanks
.

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