Antivirus/Internet Security recommendations

Any suggestions/recommendations on antivirus / internet security for my L505D-S5983. Norton comes with the system for 30 days  .. however Best Buy suggested and gave me (6) months of Trend Micro's antivirus and AntiSpyware at no charge  ... Any thoughts and recommendations are appreciated  ..  Thanks 

we use Avast! as our antivirus... we also use firefox with the adblockplus and noscript addons... most all of our other protections are handled by our extensive firewall setup...
you might also want to take a look at sunbelt software's offerings... i've been following them for years and they have excellent products and support... their new vipre technology is also a lot better, faster, and less memory hungry than any other package out there... for those that i've set up with sunbelt's stuff, all have been very happy and have stayed with them...
why don't we use sunbelt's stuff ourselves? we don't need it with our setup
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I'm a user, just like you but i'm here on a volunteer basis without compensation from toshiba or anyone else... my crystal ball is in the repair shop and i cannot look over your shoulder to see what you are doing. the more specific you are, the better the answers can be

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