[OAC_Sparky]

Hopefully you will take this the way it's intended, but I find that you get what you pay for, Ken. I've used free antivirus programs, a lot of them will identify that you have a virus, but you'll have to remove it yourself. That's a lot of work especially when you have kids that may venture into questionable territory (even unintentionally); in the event that they do you don't want to have to spend time reconfiguring that many computers in an outbreak.

WHat I would humbly suggest is Staples has Norton 360 3-user licenses for $44 http://www.staples.ca/ENG/Catalog/cat_sk...e=&=&=&=
You'll need 2 for all 6 computers ($90+tax) but in all the years I've used Norton I've NEVER had and issue with a virus getting in and if you're planning on running a media server then by protecting all your gateways to the network you are in essence protecting the server too.

Now I KNOW that there will be people chirping in with how it slows down your computer yaddayaddayadda but nobody in your house is a power user or in a job where high CPU load rendering is important, so the CPU hit is livable.

As for the mediaserver I have an HP MediaSmart Server, it's pricy but it's fantastic.
http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landin...index.html