Hah! Me too, almost! My first was a ZX Spectrum, which I still have.

On the subject of AVG... I've had to uninstall it from three machines recently, including this one. Different problems each time, free edition each time, but it seems they may be losing their grip.

This machine: Outlook started to randomly report that it couldn't contact the server to download emails. At the same time, IE8 started to randomly stop connecting to websites, especially via links - Mudcat threads were hit and miss, and images often would not display - the little box with a cross instead.

I suspected a trojan or some such, but nothing turned up. I uninstalled AVG 9 (free edition) and the problems stopped immediately. I'm currently using Microsoft Security Essentials, which appears to be effective.

A colleagues home computer suddenly rebooted, and wouldn't reboot except into safe mode. It would blue screen just after the XP loading screen appeared, but the message disappeared too quickly to read what it was saying.

Again, was this a trojan? Nothing showed up, so on a hunch I uninstalled AVG... problem solved, so agian, MSE is now installed.

My daughter's PC had a really weird error message popping up, which I didn't actually get to see. As it was just after upgrading from AVG 8.5 to 9, I suggested she uninstalled AVG and used MSE - again, problem solved.

Each of the three machines is now behaving normally, with no hint of any malware activity. I hate to admit it, but MSE seems to be a rather good piece of software!