My notes/pastes for all suggestions windows AVs as of this afternoon Fri, Dec 29th. Free Antivirus/AntiSpyware Software ClamWin Free Antivirus (free, open-source) http://clamwin.com/ Article: Using ClamWin Free Antivirus to replace proprietary anti-virus software http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/clamwin_test/ AVG Antivirus (may slow computer) http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5 I would definitely recommend AVG network edition Avast! 4 Home Antivirus (free for home) http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Winpooch Watchdog - Anti-spyware and Anti-trojan (open source) http://winpooch.sf.net/ http://winpooch.free.fr/ It adds on access scanning to clamav (and has a built in clamav scanner to do away with clamav installation plus the ability to use other av scanners). The software is not for folks that don't know what is running on the machine (most users), but can be good for folks who want to know what is going on. It can be tuned via rules to allow the usual background processes to not annoy the heck out of you (otherwise they pop up on schedule to have you allow or deny the process) Spybot Search&Destroy - Anti-spyware (free) http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Microsoft Windows Defender - Antispyware (free for now) http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Windows Live OneCare - Antivirus (pay) http://www.windowsonecare.com Microsoft has their own pay-for anti-virus solution called Windows Live OneCare (http://www.windowsonecare.com). I installed it when it was still in Beta and had some serious performance issues but cannot speak to its current state. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061229/0aae6d29/attachment.htm