In reply to balmybaldwin:
AVG used to be my go to but it's gone downhill to the stage where it's edging into being malware itself. Pop ups, adverts, I installed it on a brand new computer as basically the first thing I did and when i restarted it popped up saying "did you feel that, AVG just made your pc load up 235% faster" or something like that.
An anti virus has a unique position of having complete access to your pc, un-turn-off-able by design. imo it should work in the background not take advantage of your vulnerability to it by inundating you with pop ups and adverts telling you to use it's browser security, malware blocking stuff etc.