a spare 30mins to download - show off! Takes me about eighty minutes to download a 700mb one-cd distro.

One of the joys of Linux is not worrying too much about viruses. Thought I'd treat the long-suffering desktop to a ClamAV scan. Blow me, but it's found one so far (2 hours so far to get to 34% - a speed demon it ain't.) (About 55gb used out of the partition - which I think is about 120 gb.)

Of course, whether a virus actually matters is debatable. I'll be interested to find out which file is harbouring it, though, to try to avoid passing it along to a Windoze machine.

I should really scan for rootkits, I suppose. Trouble is, I understand one needs to look up whatever's found in case of false positives. Sigh.

I'll overcome inertia in due course...