Martin, There are two different versions of JAWS; the 'home' and 'professional'. The Home version will run only as a demo for 40 minutes on Windows XP pro, Windows media Center, and a couple of Windows Vista enterprise etc. editions. JAWS Professional is more expensive than the JAWS Home. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Trodden" <martintrodden@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:36 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: avast Hi Petrina. I know a few people who have had problems with that avast. they were getting a lot of warning notices with it and it also blocked a lot of stuff on them. my advice to you would be to remove avast and buy a anti-virus software like norton of mcafee. i use norton myself and never had a problem with it in the past 4 years. your jaws should work on both home and professional version of xp. Regards Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: Petrina Finn To: vip students Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:31 PM Subject: [vip_students] avast hi my computer has avast on it. when I switch on the machine a pop up comes up to tell me it needs to be updated. when I click on this it offers me a version for about 40 or 50 euros. Is there any way I can update this fre or do I just go ahead and buy this? thanks in advance Petrina ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 35 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message.