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Gary: I tried out a bunch of anti-virus programs. You may want to consider a different program than Norton Anti-Virus. The Norton program creates a checksum file for every executable file that it checks (ie. EXE, COM, SYS, BIN, PIF, etc.). Depending on your hard disk's sector size, these files can be as large as 8KB each. If you've got a large hard disk with lots of programs, you can easily use up nearly 1MB in checksum files. Some of the other virus scan programs use one single checksum file. For example, the one I use (and I can't remember the name of it) requires that you manually add each program you want scanned in the data file. David