I agree whole-heartedly with Malware Bytes; this is a good program. If you feel that it’s been worthwhile, and you can afford it - you might give them a ‘Thank you’ by paying for it - this is up to you.
I personally recommend running what I call a ‘Trinity’ set of malware blockers. These are all FREE, and I’d rather have a little over-lap; rather than some vulnerability.
1) Microsoft Security Essentials. Made and managed by Microsoft, this is a free program that has automatic updates.
2) Spybot - Search and Destroy. This program not only fixes the evils that have hit you; it ‘innoculates’ your PC so that at the system-level, you can NEVER go to sites that are associated with virus distrubution. Many are sites you would never probably go to for any reason (www.farmsex.com - for example).
3) Ad-aware by Lavasoft. This program sniffs out the crumbs that are left behind when you shop. Shop for a muffler, and then you are getting bombarded with ads for every make and model muffler on the market? There is a reason that happens - this fixes that problem.
All are free, all are easy to use, all are regularily updated - and the best part of all .... they have a very small “Footprint”, in that they do not take over your PC like McAffee and Norton. I hate those products, they have a small mission (protect); yet consume a HUGE amount of processing time, get into every mundane operation - and do not work as well as they are advertized to work. They are a greater inconvenience and less effective than the 3 listed above.
Ditto on your 3-pack!
I always thought that running SpyBot and AdAware on the same system was cause for trouble. You could one or the other but not both at the same time.
MRU Blaster pulls all the stay behind strings out. That one and C Cleaner are the two best that I know of. Both very small programs.