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Old 07-10-2011, 07:55 PM
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Unfortunately, there is no "best" A/V software. What is best one day is outperformed by another package a month later. If you look at the reviews carefully, you will see that even the best programs do not detect and kill 100% of the risks 100% of the time. I suggest that you do two things:
  1. run a good A/V program dynamically (checking stuff all the time)
  2. run a manual program once every two weeks or so as that 2nd step that just might catch something.
How do you find a good A/V program and should you pay or go with free software. Personally, I recommend that people run one of the better fee-based programs like Norton Internet Security, but lots of people run free A/V programs (like AVG, Avira or AVAST) and rely on the built in firewall provided by MS. Why Norton? Norton is always in the top 2 or 3 (based on reviews conducted by real computer folks). It was slow in the past but has gotten better.
I also recommend that you download Malwarebytes (the free version) and run it every two weeks or so.