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Originally Posted by cSpooge
As for antivirus... why do I need it when I'm the only one using my computer and I don't download questionable files and I don't open email attachments unless its from somebody I know, and it is something that I was expecting. If its something unexpected I just fire off an email to the person to ask them what they are sending me. Also most hackers won't attack home computers much anymore because they can't get much power off them. Most of them will attack computer networks so that they can get at a bunch of machines at once and use it for more computing power. The other problem with home machines is that they get turned off too oftern for hackers to make good use of them.
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Just for kicks, would you install Avast and run a scan? I'd be curious to see what it comes up with.
I think there is a significant portion of home users who leave their PCs running 24/7. I've got two of them at home right now. With the P2P file sharing these days lots of people leave their machines running so they can get their downloads down or they are just lazy like me and find it inconvenient to have to boot up every day. I know of reports from Gartner Group which indicate power consumption from modern PCs is minimal while they sit idle. The monitors are the big power consumer, and those are easily set to power save mode.