Best Spyware, Malware Recommendation

The FREE version of Malwarebytes is an on-demand scanner. More as a tool for removing Malware which already infects a system. The paid version comes with real-time scanning which attempts to block these form infecting a system in the first place.

More AV is switching their core protection over to using a combination of zero-day behavior detection, and cloud based reporting of exploits to reduce the response time over traditional signature based, which tends to go through a slower reporting process and confirmation before inclusion into the database.