Best Virus Protection Combination

sterzian24

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What would be the best protection from viruses/malware/ trojans, etc. Right now I am using Avast, Zone Alarm (for firewall) and Malwarebytes for mawlware protection. I wanted to know the best combination of free ones?

Also what would be the best software to do a clean sweep of the computer to clean out all viruses?

Also I always have problems with missing codecs is there anything I can install which will just give me all the codecs possible (or at least 90 % of the most used ones)?

Thank You
 

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RyQril

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Avira AV + Outpost Firewall pro is the best combination i have ever had untill the license of OPFWP had to end.
now am using Comodo firewall + MSE + SuperAntiSpyware..
the SuperAntiSpyware is turned off and i run a scan once a week.....
afterall it all depends on the user
 

SSri

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My set up on Win7 64 bit:

Windows Firewall + MSE v 4.0 + real time Spyware guard = works well and extremely light on resources. Note that I use set up my own firewall rules.

Extras: on-demand MBAM and SuperAntiSpyware.

Thinking of going MBAM pro.