[LennonCook]

If you have that little trust in your anti-virus, you might consider running two on your system. This is what I meant by using a real anti-virus: using a secondary real one instead of housecall. If the fact that housecall and kin have read access (and, often, write access to fix the problems) to your entire harddrive without any permission other than in the applet itself doesn't raise hairs on your neck, I don't know what will.

It might be worth noting that virus definition files can apparently be picked up as viruses. For this reason, you should be wary of false positives. And unless you have a super computer, you shouldn't run them at once, or have both autoprotects running at once. But honestly, one is usually enough, and you shouldn't run any online ones unless you need to (for example, if your real one has been incapacitated).