Hi Clint
Thanks for your comments.  Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought my PC antivirus
(Norton) seemed to be detecting viruses when I connect to my iPAQ.  Maybe
not!
But I'll take you up on your offer.  Please find $40 attached! ;-)
Regards
David

DG,

The issue at hand is your PPC acting as a fomite.

Forgive me, I'm a microbiology professor and this explanation comes easiest
to me.  A fomite is a nonliving object which can transmit disease.  One
example might be a glass that someone with a communicable disease drinks
from.  Drinking from that glass might infect you.  At no particular point
however would you be overly concerned for the health and well being of the
glass, it's not likely to develop disease symptoms itself.  The glass is a
fomite - it can serve as a carrier for disease.

There are (to my knowledge) no known PPC viruses, but I like many often tap
into my wireless router and download emails for initial viewing on my iPAQ.
These emails may still be on the iPAQ when I next sync.  Any virus infected
messages are not scanned on my iPAQ since I do not have AV sofware on my
PPC.   I do however keep my laptop and desktop very tightly protected with
VERY frequent updates for virus definitions.

So, your PPC is probably safe without its own protection.  Make sure your
primary computer is well protected and you should be ok.

The one scenario that occurs to me, as I type this to you would be messages
received initially on the PPC and forwarded from that device to other
people.  In that scenario you might unwittingly pass an infected message
along to someone else.  So, ask yourself how often you might receive mail on
the PPC and feel that you just "have" to forward it right that second
without waiting until you can send it from a protected machine.

$0.02

Terry