It's that time of the year - Antivirus Renewal

[Nem]

For individual files use http://virusscan.jotti.org/

[ifm]

Also worth people checking their firewalls on here:

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

I use ghostwall as a firewall, it is free, small, uses no recognisable resources and is excellent.
From the site above:-

Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE! Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
 Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.

[ifm]

and the port test:-

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GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2007-01-04 at 15:16:43

Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113,
                            119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445,
                            1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 5000

    0 Ports Open
    0 Ports Closed
   26 Ports Stealth
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   26 Ports Tested

ALL PORTS tested were found to be: STEALTH.

TruStealth: PASSED - ALL tested ports were STEALTH,
                   - NO unsolicited packets were received,
                   - NO Ping reply (ICMP Echo) was received.

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[Bongo]

I got the same result as you ifm, after disabling my firewall

I've meanign to try ghostwall, but just haven't got round to it.

[I, Zimbra]

Thanks for the replies, guys... I knew I could count on you