@ Kroc Howdy, and thanks.

For starters, Please know I very much appreciate your kindness and taking a minute of your time for your reply.
On the Symantec subject I believe I clearly understand what you mean in your writings. (As I understand you speak from your vast experience as a computer technician which very much validates your stand on the matter)

I looked up the MSSE and as I read and understood, it would service the pc as an antivirus would (without categorizing it as one). Hmmmn. All these years and wasn't aware of it. Now, acknowledging it's you who brought this (MSSE) to my attention, I will very likely consider using it once my current antivirus coverage period ends, which is not very far off btw. FF and ABP have always been on my pc's from very long ago, so I guess that's already done. Not 100% sure if the subscription filter I use on ABP is the far best but so far seems to be working well.

Once again, very grateful for your sincere feedback, and I'll return here as I learn plenty from PC gurus like yourself. I like researching topics that concern my equipment, so every time I need to execute any vital exercises on my pc, I like to discuss it first, and I get a pretty knowledgeable vibe from your writings.

regards

RAI