thing is, all antiviruses, can stuff up from time to time. i agree with the AVG i use it and it picks up everything so far, but then again there has been issues with it, with the updating part of it. nortan is slow and takes up to much room and runs a lot of things in the back ground. one thing that an anti virus can get confused with is the firewall so you got to be careful and if you notice it does this, reinstall or use a different one for a while till they update again or something. ive had a lot of experiences from a lot of different anti viruses and spybots and all that, and i reckon AVG is the best for most people, if not all. and i havnt really got a view on spyware protection as i never really use them and i should but i dont know a free one.