>>If you don't want to have the overhead of a full-time AV product running, at least get something like NAV or McAfee or F-PROT and run it against anything coming in from outside your controlled environment. Floppies and email are major sources of viruses that people tend to forget until they get bit.
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>I'll see if I can reconfigure vshield to worry only about floppies but I doubt that's possible.
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You can, and can have it set to only test the first time after a media change is detected. Look at the properties sheet for System Scan to control when floppies are tested, and when files are scanned. I'm paranoid. I test things to death that I don't know are clean, and I back up to tape nightly and run a full backup, and have about 40 DAT tapes. And a Jaz cartridge on one machine that WIP gets written to fairly often - my time is valuable.

>>because the odds are you don't have backups that are current enough to make restoration worthwhile and aren't infected too.
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>Well, we're good about that. I installed a zip drive and she backs up all her data at midnight and then does a dif backup before going home.
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I have a DAT tape drive because I can back up the whole LAN while I (theoretically at least) sleep. Zip media won't hold a full install of Win98SE without having to change media. I use DDS-3 DAT and don't worry asbout changing the cartridge, and there's a great deal of data recovery information written in the DAT format.