Windows 7 - Which antivirus is best at removing malware?

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hi !

yes, this is interesting, but one thing to remember is the fact that no A/V is good at detecting and removing malware.
an Antimalware-program fx. a-squared (a2) is much better.

For malware removal use the Malwarebytes. It is the best of its kind.

The results affirm what I've already long suspected, which is that Symantec does a far better job of malware detection and repair than many other names. I use their small business edition of Endpoint and have done so for a couple of years now - it's pretty rare that something slips past it.

That said, we all know that no one anti-virus or anti-malware product is capable of being a Swiss Knife of course. It pays to keep an online virus scanner bookmarked for periodic additional use, should you suspect something is causing problems.

On one occasion during the last twelve months Esets online scanner found a minor risk which Symantec missed.

You can rate one program over another all day long but the one best defense is simply having multiple layers of protection. I think that is what you were trying to point out there. Qdos

you can't just depend on one program layered sercurity is the best.

eScan, Symantec and Microsoft (MSE)
Those were the only good ones.

And my own Personal test can help back that up, too.

MSE Blocked 10/10 zero-day malware links! Good job!
Symantec Blocked 20/20 Zero-Day Malware links, though it DID let in two BOTH were caught a few seconds later by SONAR 2.

Never tested eScan, but maybe will later.

i do not know who is best,but i like avast! home edtion which is free best

The thing to note about the article there is that there are different types of malwares to start with. Data miners, tracking "cookies", trojan downloaders, and other types of "bugs" fall into a different catagory then viruses. Even there you will find various types as well.

From the time the RCs went on having 5 sata drives in plus usb flash drives a full sweep prior to seeing the retail Ultimate go on and despite all of the various freewares, sharewares tried out from various sites not one bug turned up. This was all before the MS Essentials became availble.

The 3 main programs during that time were AVG 8.5 with the IE security toolbar which sounded an alert on a few sites, Spyware Terminator(not mentioned), and a recent new program System Protect(same co as ST). Probably the two items that did the most were the security toolbar on IE 8!

I am sure Malwarebytes and Microsoft's MSE can solve most of the problems?