Best Virus Checker

Well assuming you already have all the usual free ones, AVG etc, the best I found, and by that I mean the one that could find the bloody virus and get rid of it was
NOD32.
You can get a free trial here, I think I had to download it from work and run it from a memory stick my home computer was so screwed..

It was so good I actually subscribed to it for money and I rarely do that.  But if you have had the headache of your computer not working you will gladly pay not to sort it out again

Since installing it I have had not one virus despite many attempts by people hooking up infected drives to my computer

Free music, films, audiobooks etc

If like me you don't like using P2P then the solution would seem to be to google what you are after and add the terms rar and -torrent.
For example

if you type
revolver beatles rar -torrent
into google, you wll after a bit of clicking about find this link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/19284223/Beatles_-_Revolver.rar


some things like films come in many parts and you have to have winrar a free program to unzip

ahh yes you say but there is download limit,

this can be got round by
1) delete cookies/clear private data
2) switch modem off and on again
3) if you know how to access modem you can do this step 2 from the computer without switching off modem
For example if you are with Bell you type
http://192.168.2.1/
click on advanced, enter username and password usually admin and admin, then go to advanced, then internet connection, then click disconnect and then connect, do this in a separate browser to the one you are downloading in, say firefox and opera then you don't need to keep putting your password in everytime