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Try Immunet. It's free. You can buy the plus if you want a traditional type antivirus program, but the free version gives you better coverage than existing AV programs.

92f-fan wrote:

lrb111 wrote: My go to anti-virus now for Windows is Malwarebytes, and accepting the fact that they will always be infected with something.

I was under the impression that Malwarebytes was a malware program but NOT an antivirus

here from the horses mouth
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=8068" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Malwarebytes both detects existing infections and (if you pay for it) can protect you against some infections. But it's just as prone to false negatives as all antivirus products are. The reality is the bad guys are ahead of the game and AV is struggling to keep up (and failing.) For any trojan you've heard of by name, there can be literally hundreds and hundreds of variants. The bad guys even scan their malware with existing, up-to-date AV products and then rewrite the code to avoid detection. They are paying professional programmers very high salaries to write malicious code and keep writing it to avoid detection.

Your best defense is to be extremely aggressive about keeping all of your software patched and up to date. Then use firewalls and application whitelisting to add an extra layer of defense to protect you against infections.

Antivirus is becoming useless technology. None of the firms can keep up with the flood of new trojans that infest systems routinely. The most common avenue of infections these days is third party apps (Adobe Reader, Flash and Shockwave, Java, etc.) that are not being routinely patched by their owners.

I would recommend that you no longer waste your money on antivirus. Microsoft offers Forefront for free for home use. It's as good (or as worthless) as all the others at not really protecting you very well. If you insist on using antivirus, use Forefront or one of the other free offerings out there. None is perfect. All are adequate. None will protect you from every single threat out there (or even most of the newer ones).

I would suggest looking in to Comodo Internet Security. It's free, and it does both firewall and application whitelisting. And keep everything patched and up to date.

Trying to avoid bad sites on the internet is next to impossible now. The bad guys are injecting malicious code into banner ads that appear on the most popular sites on the internet; Yahoo, Google, CNN, Fox Sports, ESPN, etc., etc. You no longer can avoid being exposed.