I have been on broadband for well over ten years on a Mac. With, for at least the first five years, not even a firewall. Now all I have is the simple software firewall built in to the OS. No virus detectors, no spamware blockers, no trojan detectors, no po-up blockers, no spyware software... NOT A SINGLE THING.

I have never had a virus, trojan, or malware of any kind whatsoever. I have never had to reformat a drive, or spend money of any kind on computer geeks to 'fix' my wounded machine. All I have ever done is switch it on, and go to work (or to SZ ). How many PC users out there can say that..? Ever vigilant, ever paranoid, ever worried... Why do you put yourselves through that? To save a few bucks?

Just what IS your time worth to you?