hi all!

i'm picking up my new computer tomorrow and was hoping I could get a suggestion on favorite antivirus brands?  i'm sort of [absolutely] computer illiterate so any advice would be welcomed!

I use Kaspersky and it's never let me down. I use a wide variety of their services and all have been amazing. 

I believe my dad prefers Norton but I am poor bean and don't ever visit questionable sites anyways so I've got nothing past the default Windows Defender xD My computer came with like a year's subscription to Norton, but I just haven't renewed it.. because poor bean lmao.

I use spybot because it's free version is pretty good. But I'm also old school and that's what I've been using for over 10 years lol. If there's something better out there, I wanna know too!

EDIT: I also use superantispyware because it's free and does full computer scans. I use this one more than spybot.

AVG is what I use because it is free. But I could be in the market for a new one as well. At the time I downloaded AVG, it has worked well and had been working well on my other laptop. But I've had it awhile and am not sure I absolutely love it. 

I'm sure mango's dad is very trustworthy, but I haven't found Norton to be trustworthy or reliable in many, many years. I don't like that one, in my opinion. Always wanting to download stuff that it says it needs but then it is a virus or something or other. I avoid Norton like the plague now.

I've also experienced that once installed, Norton is about like posion ivy to get rid of. You think you have it all uninstalled and gone, and yet somehow there are still roots somewhere and you can't get rid of it  100%.