That is kind of you, Dan, and typical, from your posts, but I live in New Zealand. I'd prefer that you spend the $6+ postage on your good works. Better spent there. I'm only trying out Linux, just for the reason that you outlined in the thread title, I have XP, and some months to go on my anti-virus. Thank you for the offer.

I'm pretty sure that the trojan I had came with a freeware download. Serves me right, it's not the first time, you'd think I'd learn, and other platitudes.
I'm also pretty sure that I'd need special drivers to get Linux working well with this motherboard and keyboard, not to mention the printers and scanner (I can't even get an XP driver for that!)

The official Ubuntu site offers CD postage as an alternative to downloads. I looked in the local bookshop today, and there were coverdisks with three flavours of Linux. Not Ubuntu.
Regards, Chris.