I like using Ad-aware antivirus, its free and does the job. I used to have AVG for a long time due to the same reasons but havent installed it to my new laptop. Ad-aware and f-secure combo including its vpn seems decent enough. It seems I am the only one using ad-aware in this forum BTW has anybody seen the malware musem? - https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum, thats pretty neat!