Anti-Virus Software on Dell Studio 14z

Purchased dell studio 14z on Friday here in Wilmington, NC. Dell Box and Best Buy Website stated computer came with Norton Anti-virus 15 month trail. A Norton CD in the box but not pre-loaded on computer with other software like Office and Adobe Reader. Note this dell does not have an optical drive. However Kaspersky anti-virus was loaded and I was already hit with a virius over the weekend. The Geek Squad is re-imaging the computer today. However they didn't give me a clear answer on what security software is suppose to be loaded on this computer and if need to purchase or activate the license for protection? Why wasn't Norton preloaded like the other software listed with the computer purchase price?

I think a hyprid solution is the best.
We will start with the exclude dirs and this exclude processes:
disp+work.exe
gwrd.exe
icman.exe
igsmux.exe
igspw.exe
msg_server.exe
oracle.exe
saposcol.exe
saprouter.exe
sapstartsrv.exe
tnslsnr.exe
brbackup.exe
brarchive.exe
brrestore.exe
Thanks for your fast help!
Regards,
Andreas

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