Seeking Easy AV for Vista Home Basic user?

Hey, this isn't Neowin

As for those bloaty HP programs you can either manually clean it out or use PC Decrapifier. Not really a technical name but it does it's job, lol. I got rid of Acer's junk on both of my computers.

 

Adding a stick of Ram is cheap and will help with computer performance. midway 40 recommend PC Decrapifier, I've used it and it works great. After that, download and install NIS 2009 see how it runs on her laptop. NIS also has a good firewall that will make choices for her. NIS 2009 is light and a complete product. It's a very good choice for someone who wants to set and forget.
If free is the way you want to go, Avast or Avira are both very good. That still leaves you with what to do about firewall. She can use Vista firewall,which is limited, or check out "other firewalls" on this Forum. With her limited about of Ram anything you add may effect performance.

 

Keep in mind that you'll receive a large avnotify nag screen during each update which in some cases could be multiple times per day. If it becomes annoying there are was to bypass it.

 

Yes, that's true, thanks.... I did forget about that, but as you say, it's pretty easy to knock that out....