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I used to use AVG, then ran AVG and AVAST together for several years, Avast seemed to protect better, so I removed AVG.

Zonealarm free has always been a good firewall, but due to using a remote program, such as LogMeIn, I switched a lot of computers to Comodo firewall and used Avast.

I only switched from Avast due to having to re-register each year, which some people I built computers for couldn't seem to do, even though it was free.

Then I used Comodo Antivirus and Comodo security suite.

Nowadays I use Comodo in conjunction with Microsoft's, (but CA and Kaspersky have always been good too)

A friend I grew up with works as a programmer at McAfee, it used to give a lot of false alerts, can't comment on current program.
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Typically now I go with:
Spywareblaster, by javacool software
Comodo firewall and antivirus
Spybot search and destroy
and on computers I make or set up for other people, Microsoft Security Essentials, in addition to the above.

Of course also there's the "click Start, Run, MRT" Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool; updated monthly through Windows Update.

All free. (But the free spywareblaster you have to manually update, they charge for autoupdate)

Also at the end of each web browsing session and before any restart/shutdown, I use CCLEANER ... (you'd be surprised about that which is not a virus, but which can do things upon your next startup can do)
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Of course "In the beginning," I used to just remove viruses trojans etc manually and post how to do it to others needing help on Microsoft's NNTP groups "forums" (Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) before forums were on the Web) because until IBM finally released an antivirus program, many of us didn't trust antivirus programs to do a good job, or even not to install some other thing ...