Safe surfing for non-computer-specialists?

Spent almost three hours removing spyware from my mom's Win XP box. Thought she'd be fine as long as she didn't answer yes to any installations (I know I am :-) ), but those dialogs can be kinda tricky.

Found that Ad-Aware apparently isn't up to speed right now, Spybot found alot more evil files and has realtime Internet Explorer protection (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=mirrors). I also found free antivirus called AVG (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php). And embarrasingly enough, the XP firewall wasn't activated.

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mod_mono

Installed mod_mono for Apache. After much work I got it to execute my .aspx-pages.

The MonoApplications directive is extremely undocumented. I THINK the proper syntax is MonoApplications "virtual_dir:physical_dir".

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Mono - Open Source .NET

Mono is a wonderful thing - an open source implemenation of .NET, complete with compiler, class library and web server form ASP.NET. Download it here: www.go-mono.com.

Compiling it was another matter. Mono needs glib, so first I compiled that. Mono wouldn't compile however, it couldn't find glib. Searching the internet (and tearing my hair) finally got me the solution:

set $PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

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