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I have been using Avast Free Antivirus software for some years. I think it's working fairly well. However, I would like to know what the best malware finder software is. It would be nice to use something free but I do want an effective malware and spyware finding tool so I am not totally averse to paying a few bucks.<br />
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Thank you for the advice.
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I have been using Avast Free Antivirus software for some years. I think it's working fairly well. However, I would like to know what the best malware finder software is. It would be nice to use something free but I do want an effective malware and spyware finding tool so I am not totally averse to paying a few bucks.

Thank you for the advice.

Malware Finder

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge; it has also come to include programs that engage in various kinds of electronic fraud. Anti-spyware is software that removes or blocks that software; some common vendors include Malwarebytes, McAfee, Spybot-Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware and BitDefender.

Anti-Spyware

Various techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) vs. not rejecting all spam (false negatives) - and the associated costs in time and effort. Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.