Liz, Yes, I bit the bullet and downloaded AVG 7.5 yesterday. The 16 mb installation file took about two hours to download, thanks to my slow dial-up connection. After installing it, I also found that it had merged with my earlier version of AVG user settings. To those who say AVG is an unreliable anti-virus program, I can only say that from my experience, it is a great program, and is highly recommended by some very knowledgeable people. Alan Liz wrote: Hi Alan: I did the update back in December I think it was when I first saw that message and things have been working fine. It appeared to simply overwrite it and my configuration did not seem to be changed. Mine just updated a few minutes ago. Take care. Liz Wade