I just found out that Panda Software, makers of the Panda Antivirus program, has started a free online antivirus scan called ActiveScan.

As implied by the name, it uses ActiveX, so you have to use Internet Explorer to use this scanner. You should be using an antivirus program that runs all the time and that does scheduled “deep scans,” too. (I use NOD32 as my antivirus program.

But, you should also scan occasionally with one of the free online scanners, and I mean with one from a different antivirus company than the one whose product you use every day.

Here’s a quick link to Panda’s online ActiveScan: http://terryscomputertips.com/PandaScanner

Oh, yeah — I almost forgot to mention. They’re giving away a free 2GB iPod nano every week — to enter, just run a scan!