Hi Larry, Computer Associates recently reintroduced their free AV program and added a free fire wall to the package; CA will aggressively promote this special offer as part of Microsoft's =93Protect Your PC=94 campaign. A download link for eTrust EZ Armor is featured on the Protect Your PC site on Microsoft's Web site, located at: http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect. ++ See; http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/ Seasons Greetings http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/Xmas.htm Mike ~ one of the Moderators It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews http://www.mwn.ca/ *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 18/12/2003 at 7:07 AM Larry W. Virden wrote: I'm going to be helping a brand new user of an inherited old system (win 98/se) start to use windows. Alas, I've little experience at this. I know that for a new system, one of the first things I need to find is some anti-virus software. I've been told there are a couple of pretty good free packages - where can I find out more? Also, are there any guides, or web sites, where someone can go to find various free packages that it would be really useful for a novice user to have right from the beginning? This user is my son, a young student, who will be using the system initially for doing homework and writing . I have no doubt that before long, some gaming will interest him. And I suspect that he's going to want me to hook the machine up to a modem so he can get on the internet . For my own personal use of the system, my interest will eventually be to set up linux on the machine in some way that it won't interfere with his Windows use. Any books that would be useful to check out to help here? Particularly if they come with a CD of software - without a modem initially, it's going to be painful to transfer stuff via floppy disk... ** Please remove this line and everything below it before replying =A0** ~*~*~*~*~ For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info 1stpicksoftware" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to 1stpicksoftware-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to 1stpicksoftware-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ~*~*~*~*~