Whats the best antivirus at the store?

we have an hp pavilion dv7 laptop. it has 640 gb. we had got norton n it ruined everything it deleted all the programs on the computer like the volume the zoom on the screen. everything we clicked on anything n it said file may have been moved or deleted. my boyfriend played with it and we updated to explorer 9. however we had it so we restored it to out of the factory mode n its back to normal. so now we want to buy a new anti-virus that doesnt remove our programs such as windows media player, internet explorer our webcam programs that just come with the laptop n etc. so whats a good antivirus at the store. we dont want to download anything for free because unfortunately my boyfriend looks at ######## =( so we want something that works. norton worked it just removed everything!!! n i mean everything!

HP Pavilion dv7-4296nr Notebook Intel Core i7 2630QM(2.00GHz) 17.3" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi AMD Radeon HD 6570M
HP Pavilion dv7-4170us NoteBook AMD Phenom II Triple-Core N850(2.2GHz) 17.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
HP Pavilion dv7-4270us Notebook AMD Phenom II Quad-Core P960(1.8GHz) 17.3" 4GB Memory 640GB HDD 5400rpm BD Combo AMD Radeon HD 6370M