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Does Microsoft Security Essentials do as well as non-free commercial products?  I think I just had some malware corrupt my machine and I need to prevent that.
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I went with nod32 and malwarebytes pro.  From what I hear I should be about as protected as I can be, correct?
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There is nothing that will protect you from everything, but those two give you about as much protection as is possible without causing severe problems.  
Stay away from porn sites, avoid the freebies, and take the proper precautions in not clicking on links or attachments in email unless you are absolutely positive where they came from, and that DOES NOT mean you recognize the email address.
I am pretty careful with that stuff but I wonder if I got hit when I clicked on a twitter link???
here comes bitdefender in play, btw. nod32 does not perform so well, see for yourself:

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/producer/eset/

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bitdefender in contrast scans every link for possible / reported malware, see attached screenshot. User generated image The green ok signs are from bitdefender.

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