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I use to run without anything (no anti-virus, no software firewall) and I was just very careful what I did. I have pretty much always used a hardware firewall (router), which eliminates much of the shit door knocker stuff anyway.
However, over the last 6 months or so things have become intense. With the number of "in website" installs occuring, and with the sheer volume of crap coming down the pipe, I put on a trial version of Norton and enabled the standard windows tools.
Yesterday I purchased and installed Norton2007. Not the best product of the bunch, but toelrable and it isn't killing my system off (no, I didn't get norton internet or norton360, just the anti-virus part).
Myst, check your windows security settings. You very likely have the windows firewall activated (they try to do it by default now), and you might have windows defender running as well.
Good luck if you don't have anything, and I wouldn't recommend posting on any public boards about it.
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