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If you have a computer dedicated only to music production (no web
surfing, desktop publishing, emailing, etc.), but you still need to
get on line occasionally for software updates, how do you configure
your system? The overhead of a proper internet connection with anti
virus and firewall seems like something you'd want to avoid, but also
something you can't live without. Do you simply forgo this protection,
limit your web surfing and time connected, and hope for the best, or
something else?

With protection software disabled, but still appearing in the task
bar, are there processes left behind that continue to eat cpu cycles
or memory?

-- Iain