[Jaledin]

Originally Posted by Manduck

You already have the Windows firewall, so you could use that. For antivirus, Microsoft Security Essentials is free and highly rated.

Yeah, that's where I'm at now. Obviously block Flash and JavaScript from browser/client.

Have a sour taste back when I was using a ca. 2001 box for audio recording and for web at apartment from AVG -- one day used to be able to disable AVG manually very easily when I needed the tiny amount of resources to not get the SKIP SKIP SCREECH but then they went more, and my box wasn't hot enough to handle it. Not AVG's fault at all, just kind of irked me that they switched to using a service rather than a process that could be killed.

Attitude now with this little netbook is, eh, it's fine with MS Security Essentials + Win Firewall + SpyBot TeaTimer, and the occasional scan with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware and the troublesome experiment undo with Revo Uninstaller. Don't even have a registry cleaner on this one anymore.

Sure do miss those hours spent manually searching for Norton keys in the registry and deleting them! Not.