Should I bother with anti-virus software on new rig?

[JasGamer]

New rig coming soon...




should I bother running an anti-virus program? I've never really bothered with them.. on the rare occasions I'd somehow get a virus I'd just hack and slash it out of my system with the help of a little fix readme and regedit.exe




So really... how effective/worthwhile are the anti-virus/spyware/etc apps? I hate to waste memory on unneeded tasks.




Thanks.

 

[slick230]

Originally posted by: JasGamer
New rig coming soon...




should I bother running an anti-virus program? I've never really bothered with them.. on the rare occasions I'd somehow get a virus I'd just hack and slash it out of my system with the help of a little fix readme and regedit.exe




So really... how effective/worthwhile are the anti-virus/spyware/etc apps? I hate to waste memory on unneeded tasks.




Thanks.

Do you like wasting time on uneeded tasks? Why not use the antivirus software to spare you the trouble?

 

[Schadenfroh]

just use the freeware antivir, it only uses 13mb of memory and provides real time protection with a good dection rate.

see my Antivirus Roundup

Spyware blaster and spybot's immunize and a good host file do not take up any system resources in terms of memory or cpu time, only HD space