Hotmail shouldn't be affected by viri,  Most viri these days require 
outlook or outlook express to spread.  Then they spread by sending 
themselves to everyone in your address book. and then everyone in those 
peoples address books and on and on.  Everyone eventually has ties to 
everyone.
So anyway, if you using web based e-mail your computer doesn't even know 
you have an address book, so you should be fairly immune as long as you 
don't download and run any attachments that you don't recognize, or any 
attachments from people you DO recognize, but the message sounds funny, 
or unexpected, or ONLY has an attachment with not message.

and you can always run Linux and just be done with the whole virus thing 
altogether :)

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

mike and gale jett wrote:
> I use one of perhaps fifty computers at the public library. I have no 
> way of checking to see if these computers are infected. I do know they 
> use McAfee antivirus program, but is it updated often? I don't know.