I helped a neighbor with her Norton Antivirus (wouldn't let her renew it because there is a corrupt file). I put in a free Antivirus (AVG) for now and we'll try something else this afternoon because she still wants Norton.

I went in to see if she had been updated (we set her up for automatic update) but nothing new had downloaded since July 5 of 2005, the LAST time I did all of this and helped her put a new Norton Antivirus on her machine. She had a couple of hours of modem time as 33 updates downloaded and installed. There was a new automatic update program prior to all of those downloads--and maybe it will work this time. Last year we set up the validation program with the correct numbers so this year it didn't ask for them again.

So much for a mild resistance to MS. Even with it in place the stuff didn't download. So who can say what will happen, or if any machine will notice?

Good luck with the new machine!

SRS