Hi
I didn’t mean Avast keeping info on us I meant the ‘proxy servers’ are they not another route (like a so called short cut) that your internet connection goes through ?

On the Abort ‘thing’ if it close’s a link that youve spent hours trying to find and it happens to have the odd virus but otherwise be fine and you didn’t note the address that could be somewhat annoying !(also a site that happens to have a virus one day may not ever have one again !)

As for ‘letting’ in a virus on purpose once I was looking for a VERY rare piece of freeware, when I found it (eventually) some ‘a hole’ had put a virus with it.This is such an occasion when you may want to risk letting one in to see if you can safely remove it and keep the file !

THE POINT IS you SHOULD be given the choice and not TOLD what to do, EVERYONE is different and likes things done or works in different ways.A programmer should bare this in mind and try and give ALL possible options for EVERYONE, even nutters like me ;D

Cheers
Andy