Just had to reformat and reload WinXP to totally eradicate Nortons Anti Virus (System Works), now have a totally stable machine at last.
Dilema is wether to bother with AniVirus software, seems to create more problems than it tries to solve. By its very nature it must sit in the registrys and at the root of the operating system always running in the background.
The XP firewall seems very good - to get 'infected' with any of the current worms/virus you must physically open and execute an email attachment - if you are 'street wise' you should be able to avoid this ?
Plus invariably Virus software is always lagging behind the latest hacker and its too late ....
Sites like
www.antivirus.com will scan all system files for free for all known virus .... tempted to stick with this and the XP firewall for now rather than risk screwing up my system with another anti virus package ....... ??????