I use AVG Free myself, and haven't had any problems with it. I cut it off while gaming to minimize resource consumption, of course, but otherwise I leave it humming away in the background and it's never been particularly noticeable. Works pretty well for something that doesn't cost me a dime:)
I'd also think Ad-aware, Spybot, and ZoneAlarm would be valuable if your husband is as bad about internet security as he seems to be (for my money, I wouldn't touch the internet without ZoneAlarm; Windows Firewall just doesn't offer enough feedback about what it allows and disallows and lacks many useful options that ZoneAlarm has.)
EDIT: To support what Roland and others have said: Stay away from Norton. It consumes an unholy amount of system resources and it will not leave, ever. My sister runs it on her system and it brings everything to a crawl. I'm not fond of McAfee, either, as my stepfather uses it on his notebook and it's constantly complaining about nothing and eats a fair amount of resources as well.
I'd also think Ad-aware, Spybot, and ZoneAlarm would be valuable if your husband is as bad about internet security as he seems to be (for my money, I wouldn't touch the internet without ZoneAlarm; Windows Firewall just doesn't offer enough feedback about what it allows and disallows and lacks many useful options that ZoneAlarm has.)
EDIT: To support what Roland and others have said: Stay away from Norton. It consumes an unholy amount of system resources and it will not leave, ever. My sister runs it on her system and it brings everything to a crawl. I'm not fond of McAfee, either, as my stepfather uses it on his notebook and it's constantly complaining about nothing and eats a fair amount of resources as well.
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