I have a friend, Mike, who repairs computers along the shores of Lake Chapala, and who sent me the following email message: “Thought you might like a column topic. A recent version of AntiVirus 2009, which is a nasty spyware tool, has been sweeping through Ajijic ... over the last few weeks, and is becoming epidemic. I am getting almost a call every day from someone else who has been infected.”

Did you know that there are some 60 to 80 satellites that a moveable satellite dish can point to from here in Jalisco, and that many of them re-transmit 12 to 120 video and/or audio channels to subscribers using one of several types of systems?

The two English-language small-dish satellite systems that have strong enough signals to be easily received in central Mexico are the DISH Network from the USA, and Star Choice from Canada.

There are seven (about to be eight) major satellite TV delivery systems viewable in North America, and one of them is best for you here in Mexico.