People who often download files from friends, anonymous FTP sites, or BBS's are prime targets for virus infection. Because of this high risk, I highly recommend checking out any one of these applications.
Description: As a public service, Symantec Corp. is offering for free Norton AntiVirus
Scanner for Windows 95/NT for online users. This scanner provides complete
detection and repair of more than 7100 viruses. (Note: viruses in active memory
require booting the system to a non-infected Windows 95 boot disk). These
viruses include the first Windows 95 virus, Boza (alias Bizatch) and Word Macro
viruses, as well as Michelangelo, the infamous virus which activates on March 6
every year. NOTE for NT Users: This product is for Intel based systems running
Microsoft Windows NT version 3.51+.