What's the best Free AV to go on easy peasy netbook?

I installed easy peasy on daughters netbook. Now I'd like some opinions on what is the best FREE AV to go with easypeasy,

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tribe_menx

Been using Clam AV for past few months on my ubuntu notebook

tbgree00

I use Microsoft Security Essentials on all of my computers. The only thing I noticed a problem with is it slowed my nettop down when streaming so I am without AV on that. It gets pretty high ratings so I would go with it.

In my opinion the easiest way to avoid malware is to use Firefox with Adblock Plus. I've never had a client get an infection after making that switch. Some refuse to use anything but the big blue E but it seems like Firefox works pretty well.

hypnotoad

The last 3 issues with rapeware (as i call it) I've had to deal with have been via exploits in Flash, PDFs, and Java. So yeah...the browser sometimes has nothing to do with it.