My suggestion is to try somewhere else as you will get no help here :).
Your intention might be above board, others' may not.

No. Otherwise every piece of software you installed after installing Windows, would be classified as malware.

Malware is a piece of software that deliberately sets out to either wreck ones pc, or...

There may be a false positive here or there, but to say that AV's 'attack' legit software is wrong.

There are no stupid questions, so don't worry yourself on that score :).

An ATI card will work on an nvidia chipset mobo and an nvidia card will work on an ATI chipset mobo.
The only thing you...

Download and run Winsockfix from here http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Network-Tweak/WinSockFix.shtml

tris3u. Am splitting your post out to your own thread. Please do not piggy back other members threads :). You will better recieve help by starting your own. Thank you for understanding.

I installed it on Saturday & dumped it on Sunday. Not a patch on Opera. Doesn't render a lot of M$ pages correctly, slower than Opera, no features, twice the d/l size as Opera. MYIE2 is better.