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What I tend to suggest when I see this sort of question is this -
Search "Best antivirus 2016" and look for sites like Tom's Hardware, PC Magazine, etc. They will tend to run reviews several times a year. Add "Free" if you only want the free stuff.
I also suggest grabbing Malwarebytes to run on demand along with whatever you select.
Ones that generally come highly recommended - Avast, AVG, Kaspersky (not free.) I'm running Sophos Home as well - it's ... not as user friendly, honestly, though it works fairly well. Also, while you're at it, set Flash to "click to run," as it's been the vector for many infections, including crypto viruses, even on "safe" sites. It's no longer enough to just keep out of the "seedy corners" of the Internet - I say this as someone who has to clean infections (or shut down running crypto viruses and arrange for restores from backup) for medical centers who get hit while looking up medications.
I use this as well. I don't like paying for a subscription to some other program that ends up slowing down the entire system as it's checking things on a constant basis. Windows Defender is an all in one solution and my computer is always considered "Stealth" from Shields UP!
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Windows Defender has real-time active scanning mode and daily updates as has been said. You can change those but it's not a good ideal too.
I'd recommend avoid going down the route of paranoia. Criminals should be paranoid, not innocent people sitting at home using their computers. In the top 5 of IT problems is anti-virus anti-trojans flagging legitimate programs and scripts as 'potential' trojans and viruses.
Fact is if you don't use warez and other pirated SW or content, visit sites that do, avoid torrents and peer-to-peer SW or allow Flash to run - your chances of getting a virus or trojan are infintesimal and would just about have to come from email phishing. Also, I find the Microsoft Hotmail is as good as or better than Google Mail and both are much, much better than icloud Mail from filtering phishing attacks.
I have tried those Avast, Norton, and a long list of security SW and the only thing they are good at is taking your money and making you feel like every click you feel on your machine is out to get you. Untrue and a vast waste of money and computer resources.
I do, once or twice a year click a link to a site that showed up in the Bing or Google search results on the 1st page (usually a site that has a pretty picture or nice computer drawing they use as bait but sometimes other things too) that make me have to use a very quick set of clicks to manage to close the tab that has taken over my browser but not often. Sometimes I have to close the browser with the Task Manager and restart it and close the offending tab before it loads. You can also tell the browser to not re-open tabs last open after exiting too. Bing has gotten stricter with filtering it's results against such sites in the last year. For a while last year the myfitnesspal.com site was repeatedly infected with trojans via ad streams it accepted from 3rd party services it signed up for to get ad revenue sharing profits; however myfitnesspal.com I've found has poor SW coding all around even with it's core functionality. Part of the reason I have those problems less now with search engines is I avoid using Google and Bing as much as possible because the returned search results are so fake and irrelevant (LOL, Urban Dictionary I'm talking about them among others).
I would not use AVG. It's often worse than the viruses it's supposed to protect against. I've lost several drives to AVG. No viruses were involved. It just stopped working and destroyed my drives. It's near impossible to uninstall and you can't just disable it if you want to do something that requires turning off your AV.
Malwarebytes is really good for malware detection. So is Spyware Terminator.
Shields UP just tests if your firewall (or actually for most people these days, their router's NAT) is blocking a list of common ports, it has nothing to do with your antivirus software. As for the slow downs that is because third party AV software can't hook into the same APIs that Windows Defender uses as they're private MS only ones.