[sjpritch25]

Why is there not any Anti-Virus software installed?

[chen1276]

What would you recommend? Is there anything available for free that works well?

Part of the reason is I've found anti-virus software to be annoying in the past...lots of pop-ups, scans, etc. I am probably just not provisioning the SW correctly.

[sjpritch25]

Well, i can understand your compliant. The only way to prevent such annoyances is to run in a limited account with windows. That will prevent most malware from getting to your computer. W7 has made great strides with "Standard Mode", otherwise i recommend running an anti-virus.

My recommandation for you would be Sunbelt Vipre. Vipre is very light on resources and gives very few popups and its very cheap.


http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/home-home-office/vipre/

My dad has it installed on his netbook with no issues at all.