Apart from when I walked into a lamppost, I think the old adage "what the eye dosn't see, the heart doesn't grieve" has served me well Dave.
Lol Clive. Of course, you are right.
My son has been sitting here with me this morning (he's finished school now - the sooner he gets a job the better!) and even he said I faff around too much:
"You're always messing about with things on there. I'm surprised you ever get to any websites".
Therefore, I have turned off notifications, hidden the task bar icon and changed log settings from the default 512KB and 30 days to 100KB and 1 day, with the intention of preventing me from keep snooping about in them. Hopefully, my anti-instrusion program will now cease to be the most intrusive software I have on my machine.