I'm late but Happy B-day CA3LE! Hear you have a kid baking to congrats A lot of fun and stress coming your way hehe. I have a 1.5 year old boy and a 2 month old boy and they are a blast when they aren't driving you crazy! I hope everything goes smooth for you.
Lorne
Damn almost missed this been neck deep in images all day
Hope you had / are having a great birthday, and I'm sure your new child will be born soon. You can always say that your birthdays are on the tens Binary numbers again
You need to worry more about rootkits than viruses. I install rkhunter on every Linux box I run and it has always worked well for me. http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ Can do a few basic things as well to keep the script kiddies from attacking such as changing ssh port and disabling root, locking root access to IP things like this