Family Holiday Computer Repair and Upgrades

The holidays are upon us! Or so I am told. Given that many of us will be traveling and visiting family for the holiday, the techies in us always seem to have a misleading simple question posed by family: “Hey my computer is running slow? Can you look at it real quick?”

For many of us, it’s a dreaded task for we only have to think back one year to the massive amounts of spyware, viruses and outdated security software we may have found on these systems. Regardless, it is our duty as techies to step up and make things work again.

So, what are you doing this holiday season to your family’s computers? What are your favorite apps to help keep a computer you probably won’t see for another year clean? Certainly one thing I am doing is upgrading family systems to Windows 7. I need to select a good anti-virus through. Suggestions?