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Use your own experience of using avast and not a single review unless you know exactly how the tests were carried out. I assume you are talking about Computer Shopper ?

If you check www.av-comparatives.com where you will see that tests are done over a long period of time and in those regular tests avast consistently gets rated better than AVG.

However in isolation no single product is going to stop everything and these reviews are looking at things in isolation, your multi application approach compliments avast and boosts avast’s specialist anti-virus detections.

I have almost three years experience of avast and no infections with a set-up similar to yours, I don’t use Spybot Search and Destroy or Cyberhawk. With your set-up I feel you have little to fear, especially if you ad a dash of common sense.

However, I do have another tool in my defences, Drive Image, this takes an exact image of my hard disk partitions, I run this every week and if the worst ever comes to the worst, I restore the last image I took. So I can be back to a clean working system in under 15 minutes.