Avast! and AVG are OK, but they are free. So is Spybot. They all have incredibly low detection rates. You are susceptible to almost everything with them. Just read the reviews. They are disappointing. The free ones may be good for what they are, but they will not come close to the paid antivirus programs.
I used to have Avast! and then I got McAfee and McAfee cleaned out whole bucketload of malware that Avast! never detected. Then I got Kaspersky and it cleaned out several more types of malware, but this time more serious, such as worms and spyware, that McAfee never suspected were there. So get Kaspersky. No one is truly safe without it, as in addition to the best protection it has the fastest response times of all anti-malware programs and is updated a couple of times a day. It was also the only anti-malware to detect the Conficker worm and delete it for quite some time.
Kaspersky also keeps track of what you are infected with and sends the data to the company website, where they analyse it, contributing to the fast response times. Kaspersky is always the first one to discover a virus, and always the first one to respond. Even though some say there are better anti-malware programs, everyone agrees that Kaspersky has the fastest response time.
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