Some months ago I found a site which compared virus checkers against a collection of viruses. When I tried today I get error "Microsoft VB Script runtime error '8coa01a8'2 page not found . I wonder if anyone knows how I can acces a similar comparison site or even contact the webmaster - I have forgotten how to do that, is it using "whois"?Or maybe some kind techno guru would recommend - so far I've been using norton but my subscription runs out soon. I run XP & would like a firewall that integrates well with a virus checker. Currently no specific privacy issues - so not sure I need a spam filter.

To answer the second part of your question:
AVG for anti-virus
and
Sygate as a firewall.