Recommendations in the Software Recommendations thread are still valid.

Personally I'd recommend:

Antivir by Avira or Avast by Alvil for antivirus, Online Armor or Comodo for firewall,  SuperAntiSpyware and SpyBot (or Adaware2008) for antispyware.

Right now I have Avast, Online Armor,  SuperAntiSpyware and Spybot with its TeaTimer installed. I'm very satisfied with their performance.

Can you tell me if the Tea Timer slows down your machine at startup? Mine appears to be a system hog for a good while after booting up the 'puter. Eventually though thing go back to normal. 

Thanks

Spybot seems to be the way to go for spyware it would seem, as for AV & firewall I quite fancy the Comodo 2 in 1 internet security package that 117 mentions. ( anything that makes things easy is ok by me   )

I confess that I have actually already installed Avast anti virus on my laptop  because I have it on my P.C  ( which I have now got fixed on the cheap incidentally - the motherboard was knackered    ) where it has performed ok as far as I know. The problem I have with Avast on my lap top, is that I'm not sure how I actually register it? the Avast on my P.C. needed re registered with the yearly keycode which I did ok, but since my lap top doesn't have any AOL software on it ( I don't really want to put any on it ) and I connect my laptop to the net using the internet explorer which my lap top came with, it can't receive emails, so I can't get a key code sent to it, the code that was sent for the Avast on my P.C. comes up as invalid when entered into the Avast on my lap top? therefore after the 60 day trial or whatever it is I'm not sure if the Avast on my lap top will keep on protecting it? ( unless it comes under the Avast registration on my P.C. when  my laptop connects to my modem? I have been told that you can use Avast Home on more than one computer by Avast themselves, but they have failed to reply to my registration problem in any follow up email to date?  )

Can you run two Anti virus programs on a laptop? eg Avast & the Comodo package or would I have to remove the Avast before the Comodo would work?

When I re registered my Avast on my P.C. which I have just done a few days go because it needed re registered the first time I switched my P.C. on after getting it fixed ( it was out of action for a while ) I copied the code from my email that was sent to my P.C. and entered it manually into the Avast on my Laptop, but it just came up as an invalid code?

It might be an idea just to remove Avast from my laptop altogether and install the comodo 2 in one package that 117 and Pablo recommends, especially if as you say it might lead to problems having two anti virus programes installed.