rgd1101 :
No antivirus is going to do that if the user goes to stupid website and downloading stuff
I do agree with that, but even you are power-user shit just happen whether you like it or not.
Im a PC user for over 25 years now and 99% of the time out of any AV, anti-crapware solution, but there is times when my girlfriend work on my PC and then magic start to happen.
I had windows 10 installed lately, just after the release date. I did an upgrade from win7, written down a new windows key and did again fresh install. Did a backup with Acronis, so any shit happen I'm back within few mins.
Next few days I've spent to set it properly for my needs, disabling all spying crap, cloud drive, auto-updates, windows defender, more and more and finally it started to work better than windows 7. Few days ago my girlfriend used computer while i was at work. I'm coming back and noticed it was working unusually this time, checking running processes and here it is... checking Programs and futures and can't believe this is happening, 50+ crapware installed already. Installing some free antivirus, full scan, in the meantime 1 by 1 uninstalling that crap. When i finally think its over one unistaller gets cocky, instead of getting wiped it start to download new crapware, Task Manager, kill all unknown processes, done. Starting FF again to get some other AV from the web, "unable to resolve host", command prompt ipconfig /flushdns... still not working... netsh winsock reset, I'm back but whats that FF is working like crap some tabs start to open from nowhere... AV throws a threat warning, few seconds later a blue screen or whatever they call it now in win10 lol
I've spent over 5 hrs trying to solve those issues and simply gave up out of frustration, restored fresh backup and started whole reconfiguration and personalization for next 5 hrs or so. After that made a new backup with all important software installed so next time i wont have to spend few hrs making windows usable.
After all of that searched for a free AV that is light enough to run and better then any of those "stupid-proof" Avast, AVG, etc... I'm a power-user for god sake i do know better what to do when shit happen, don't treat me like a baby!
And found this:
http://www.360totalsecurity.com/
I was skeptic about even spending a MB of a RAM, a single IO of my hdd,or a 1% of a CPU for anything i don't really need coz i do know better. So even if you are cautious and mature with your choices stuff just happen and in those times i feel the only way not to happen would be not using web browsers at all and install anything from the web, but that's nearly impossible nowadays.
So back to the OP's question, there is no such thing as best antivirus, some of them are heavy on resources, some of them can't find a crapwere even if its literally trolling everywhere, some of them will treat user like a kid without even allowing to make decision what to do with the threat or even make a scanning exclusion.
I think I've found one for myself, you do the same and test few, you might find one that suits your needs.
Even those premium have trial version so you can test them for 30 days, but there is certainly even few freewere that should do the job as well
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