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I use no antivirus, no firewall, (I have router) and no windows defender. The best protection starts and the keyboard and mouse of the user in my opinion and if I have to get rid of some malware/virus, which I havent goten in over a year now I will only use MBAM.
You are either extremely lucky, or have a lot of rootkits, bots, and other dangerous Malware.
Speaking of best protection: I suggest everybody use imaging. I take an automatic image every morning at boot time. That protects me better than anything because I can always bail myself out. I happen to use free Macrium, but there are more good options.
I was just coming here to say something about this. I, personally, don't use imaging (I've heard claims that it can back-up viruses like system restore does), but I have spent a lot of time backing up all my personal files, my themes, the installers for my drivers, the user data for my browser (history, add-ons, themes, bookmarks, etc.) and the installers for my AV programs. I even have an image of my 7 DVD on my external HDD just in case. Having to reinstall or having a HDD fail on me (had a drive replaced a month ago, reinstalled night before last) hardly phases me when it takes an hour after install to get everything exactly as it was before. Really, its up to the user how they back-up their stuff. What matters is actually doing it. It saves a lot of time when something goes wrong and nothing gets rid of malware like a clean install.
Try Win Patrol. It makes an image. Get a virus etc. It notifies and you can tell it to go back via the image. It does not make a copy of the virus, unless you approve the change.
http://www.winpatrol.com/