Jazzmin,

Real respect has to be earned. There are some users of this site that I have a lot of respect for, and other for which I have none....  That comes from years of visiting this site and reading what people post and how they conduct themselves. As for yourself I have the same respect for you as I would have for any person that I don't know since I haven't read any of your posts outside this thread.

To the issue at hand, do DAZ installers carry a virus? I think you will find if you read through this thread that it has been investigated before and the answer was no. I agree that if AV software flags up a warning, then it is sensible to check, and each person must make a decision if they believe the answer they get from the vendor, or not. Personally I make an informed decision based on the reputatation of the person providing the information, and on 25+ years experience in IT. I have had a couple of viruses on my home computer, usually they got in before my AV was updated to detect them. I think the first one was on 'Flair Paint' on an Atari ST and unusually that did come on the floppy disk from the vendor. I have never had a virus from DAZ, or from models I bought from Zygote before DAZ was split off. ( first model I bought I think was the racing car driver from Zygote. wow a long time ago  lol. )