Thanks,
It's not that I don't like norton but its a pain that it way it checks things that are already on the hard drive.
I can understand also why it runs when downloading or installing a new program but why does it have to check a database i've written thats currently on my hard drive every time its accessed.
I am aware that you can exclude certain file types but I don't want to run a risk of it checking downloaded files of a similar type or extn.
cheers clicker