Akir wrote:Or even better, use linux!
Agreed. That's what I've been doing for the last 10 years. Moved distro's quite a bit, but have been using Ubuntu primarily for the last year.
However, I generally recommend Mac's to people. Even though I prefer Linux, there are still a few things about it that are too difficult for n00bs to grasp. Also with a Mac people actually realize they're running something different and stop bugging me about trying to run some random Windows app on it or random hardware that's Windows-only.
Akir wrote:If that isn't your 'thing,' then Clamwin (I think they may have changed to ClamShell...) is a good antivirus. It's available from sourceforge.
ClamAV works great for scanning email, but for general Windows viruses it's not very good. Try taking a heavily spyware/virus infested machine, booting into into Linux (either a live CD or a network boot) and run the following: F-Prot (free for Linux), BitDefender (free for Linux) and ClamAV. All read only. Both F-Prot and BitDefender will pick up a significantly larger amount of infected files.
For email, though, I use ClamAV on my servers (with MailScanner and SpamAssassin) and it hasn't let one though yet. That is what it was originally designed for and it still where it works best. It also works well on Samba shares. I use BitDefender on all the proxy servers.