Hi Steve, Something you may want to consider when thinking about using the anti-virus on another machine is the license agreement. You could be in violation by using it on more than one PC. Why not go ahead and install the anti-virus program you/they plan to use? Unless the PC is already infected with a virus that would attack and render it useless, that would seem to be the way to go. You could also use one or more of the many free online scans. Here are a few: PC PitStop (you might want to run other tests there) http://www.pcpitstop.com/pcpitstop/default.asp House Call. http://housecall.antivirus.com Symantec Security Check & Virus Scan http://tinyurl.com/3ezrg Panda ActiveScan, the on-line anti-virus http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/ You could, with some programs, copy the installation files to a CD and run it from there. However, the license agreement would probably enter the picture again. Hope this helps... Sven Swanson, Sr. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Millman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:22 AM Subject: [PCSOFT] Virus Detection .. Does anyone have an easy way to detect viruses on machines that do not yet have antivirus protection? Someone mentioned to me that one could use a notebook with a hub.. and attach the machine in question to the hub.. but my Norton Anti-Virus software is single machine only and does not recognize networked drives.. Has anyone done anything like this? I would like the ability to detect and eradicate viruses on such machines.. so that after they were clean we could install ongoing antivirus protection.. Thank you, Steve Millman [log in to unmask] PCSOFT's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>