Hey whats a good free firewall and virus scanner?

Firewalls are generally firestarter for gnome and guarddog for KDE. I'm kinda partial to fwbuilder myself.

As for virus scanner, the usual suspects are F-Prot and ClamAV...

linux comes with a firewall built into the kernel but it is a bit complicated to configure directly (unless you know what your doing) so you can use a front end like guarddog to make it easy. you don't need anti-virus either. clamav is used by many people but what it does is keeps you from spreading windows viruses. a windows virus won't work in linux. due to the way unix permissions are set up unless you run your system as root (generally frowned upon) you couldn't install anything that could affect anything but your personal files anyways.

Is Linspire the distro that automatically logs you in as root? If so then ClamAV will be helpful and you should also be running chkrootkit on a daily basis

linspire comes with a firewall
in CnR search for qtfprot a free AV ...

The default setup, if the user only chooses the minimal actions required, is to log the user in as root. However, during the Linspire install, the user is presented with a button to click to set up user accounts. Anyone with the technical knowledge to install an operating system, including Windows, should be able to easily accomplish this task. Incidentally, the Administrator (what Linspire calls root) can create any number of user accounts at any time (of course).