Anti virus protection is pretty much a must have for anyone that uses the internet regularly. I thought I’d save a little money and went without anti virus protection on my notebook when I first got it, and after just two months I had to take it in for a serious set of repairs due to all the damage done to it by viruses. The guy at the repair shop, who also happens to live across the street from me, told me that he’d never seen a computer so riddled with viruses and spyware. When he asked what kind of anti virus protection I’d been using, I said ‘nothing’ and he nearly fainted.