That is precicely why I installed a dual boot drive with Ubuntu and WinXP in lieu of getting a virus... So I could scan my WinXP partition and the other physical drive from a seperate linux partition without fear of being reinfected in the process. The problem is my AVG Free in Ubuntu only recognizes the root directory it is installed in and doesn't see the other WinXP partition or the other physical drive which has all the old backed up files from my previous windows installation. Can anyone help me with this please?