Need Help Purchasing A Laptop

Greetings,
Just bought the wife a new Laptop for work.
Any good suggestions for Virus and Spyware control?

I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials (free download) for a couple of years and it's great.


Previously I used AVG Free and Avast but they can occasionally be buggy and I don't like all of the alerts. They used to be much better than they are now.

The MS product just works...and you never have to notice it.

Microsoft Security Essentials - Microsoft Windows (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download)


I see absolutely no reason to overpay (annually) for something like Norton or McAfee.

Thanx Man......

This would be a useful resource (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372364,00.asp)

Three products share the Editor's Choice honor for best overall antivirus: Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2013$39.95 at BitDefender, Norton AntiVirus (2013)$58.88 at Lenovo, and Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus 2013$19.99 at Webroot. Norton and Webroot tied for second place in my malware removal test, with 6.6 points. Bitdefender, with 6.4 points, wasn't far behind.

Thanx RR, good stuff

Thanx RR, good stuff

Also, if you hit up Costco at the right time they'll rebate it down to zero cost. I use and recommend Norton 360.