Spyware/adware program with scheduler or live scanning?
 

Yo,

So I've been fixing a woman's computers and trying to do it as inexpensively as possible. I normally use Ad Aware for Spyware programming, but I'm pretty sure she won't actually, you know, scan regularly. She doesn't run her antivirus and I had to set it up to scan because nobody ever did. I know the paid version will do realtime protection, but as I'm trying to save her money I'm looking for a good free program where I can "set it and forget it."

Any help would be much appreciated.

AVG, Avira and Avast have realtime protection.

Only AVG and Avira have schedulers, I believe.

^ Yep. I use AVG. Is simple to schedule and appears to work well.

Is AVG light on system resources? That was my other concern, which I forgot to mention. I mean, I saw the recommended specs on the page, but is it a resource hog?

Nowhere near as resource-hungry as aps like Spybot Doctor etc.

In fact, out of all the ones I have used (and believe me since my Malware Defender troubles earlier this year I've used a few) AVG is probably the least hungry.

Cool, thanks!

I have AVAST! for Virus

Spybot Search and Destroy & Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware for Malware and Spyware.

I also would NEVER install a system without Crap Cleaner (www.ccleaner.com).

We all have our likes etc, those 4 above I live by and have always done me proud. Hope that helps mate. All are free, but I run them nightly when brushing my teeth before I turn PC off.

CCleaner then Spybot.
Virus checker only if I feel something is wrong as it picks up things instantly if it finds an infection.
Malware I scan every file I download with before opening.