I know it's been lot of discussion about AV programs etc, but I need to bring it up again. As I understand it hogs up a lot of resources etc and the question is how much you can disable it? I have Norton Antivirus 2002 and Norton Internet Security which include a firewall. I have most of it running because I surfing around a lot and download things. But if you just surf around, how much protection is needed then? My ISP has also a firewall, so I guess I don't need the firewall enable on Norton?

Use the software firewall - you'd be a fool not to in this day and age, and it's not a resource hungry program. I'll pass on how much other stuff from the Norton apps you can disable because I don't use Norton... Mark

I have Norten 2003 and only that and it works the best, it updates it self I dont half to

The only Norton program which is a resource hog is System Doctor so don't have that one running in the background if you have Utilities.