Im here over one year. I use Zone alarm and Norton Utilities 2000 (Norton Anti-Virus 2000 is integrated there). Antivirus scans my system at the highest heuristic mode every night and needs a hour to get trough all disks at my local LAN. I have a cable connection and my Server runs 24h a day and I have a cable connection, so Im 365 days a year at the internet... Norton never found a virus in my system... But sure Zonealarm will be about 30-50 times a day bring a message that somebody trys to get in my system.... So I think a firewall is a must before connecting to the net... So, the price of freedom is stay alert :-) Andreas