Our Avast has been very good. It tends to have false positives sometimes, and has a very loud siren, which can startle you if you are sensitive (like me).
We use other programs for nuisance things. Spybot and Adware, and rely on the Microsoft firewall. We tried Zone alarm again, (we used to have it) on our laptop when it was new, and it was a total mess. Mozilla Firefox has been good at blocking junk including popups. Once a year I do a Trend Micro Housecall scan, and it found a minor trojan one time in 3 yrs. But then we are not major downloaders, or gamers on the net. And that may make a difference.
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