Net security progs

[Husar]

Well, I need to download and open an infected file and as long as none of my friends send me infected files I am fine. As for Active X, Opera does not support it for security reasons, never had a problem with Java, but as I said, I do not visit certain sites or download certain stuff that often comes with a virus inside.
Stay away from the girls and the illegal copies and that makes a whole lot of a difference IMO.
And while my firewall needs performance, it also blocks some intrusion attempts, as is visible in the log. The virus scanners never found anything which tells me they use up performance for no gain.
And I'm not talking generally, if you like your girls, well deal with the evils of infection and get a virus scanner, I didn't really need one so far. Avirus once a year might be a good reason to reinstall again(didn't happen yet).