With Avast blocking the .wins for "phishing" I think it's time for me to change my anti-virus.
Been thinking about switching anyways, the program spies on what you're doing and then recommends products based on your activities which I find rather creepy.
So what's the best free AV these days?
AV are pointless. They don't protect you from what needs protecting. They will never find new viruses because the are not preventative but reactive.
My suggestion. Get a good non-active anti-malware. (Malwarebytes). Scan before you shut down your computer for the night.
I suggest you look in creating a fresh install and get everything how you like your computer. Then image that drive. Every 3-6 months just wipe the drive and restore the image.
You will never have to really worry about viruses and the intrusiveness of anti-virus programs.
Always backup document's you use on the regular.
When I used Kaspersky years ago they had a large amount of preventative features, e.g. analyze the behavior of executable files to find virus-like actions. It was kind of impressive from a technical point of view. Unfortunately all these heuristics generate so many false positives that it gets annoying rather quickly.