I should have pointed out I'm also a retired IT techie although during retirement the tech is passing me by. So far, MS Security Essentials is doing an excellent job and works seamlessly in the background. On my prior laptop I had Trend Micro, which also was very good but is not free. Before that I had Norton. Norton didn't catch as much as TM did. But TM for Win7 isn't as friendly as I'd like so I switched to MSE. I think there are several very serviceable options out there. You're wise to be asking for comments from those using the products.
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