Owbist did not say they were not good he was explaining they are not antivirus programs they are antispyware programs, what you said you need is an antivirus program. yes the free ones are as good as the pay ones. yes you definitely need to remove THE ANTIVIRUS program from your pc before installing a new ANTIVRIUS program you can not have more than one. If you had Norton you will need to go get the removal tool on the list I provided and follow their directions to get it off your pc, Norton is one that deeply inserts itself and can be hard to remove. You do NOT have to uninstall or get rid of superantispyware or spybot search and destroy those are NOT antivirus programs they are antispyware programs.

on my personal windows boxes I run Avast, zone alarm pro firewall, superantispyware and malwarebytes (run scans weekly), spywareblaster at a minimum. avast! antivirus Home Edition you must follow the directions and register it but it is free the 2 pdf files on the left side of the page should be read or printed for full directions on use. SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware free but has option to purchase (well worth the price) if you purchase it does have an automatic feature. SpywareBlaster this one is a must have, no scans to run, just hit the update button once a week then the enable all protection button, and it sits there and keeps bad things off your pc. also free Firewalls good info, there are a few free firewalls including zonealarm, however anytime you download and install things be very very careful and read each step and if it ask if you want to install extra stuff like toolbars be sure you uncheck those you do not need or want that stuff, zonealarm free has started doing that and including the ask toolbar under a different name you Do NOT want it. on all my computers I also install belarc advisor which will give you a full list of everything on your pc, I usually print out a list so I can refer to it should I need to, very very hand tool. and free Belarc And definitely install and run regularly the PSI to check to see if your program is fully updated or if it needs updating. Secunia Personal Software Inspect and of course keep all windows critical updates done as they come out. If you will be using Vista you can use the built in windows firewall it is fairly adequate rather than a separate one. If you do not have these on your current pc I would suggest getting them. the fact that you have recurring infections means your current products are not fully cleaning them out, malwarebytes will help with that. And being safe in your user habits is key, don't visit sites known to carry infections including social networking sites, don't open email attachments from anyone. when you have an infection that you know is there and you are not able to remove come ask for help I can take you to one of the support help forums that specialize in removing hard to remove infections. Do occasional online scans to double check your AV. housecall is good and so is this one FREE Online Virus Scan I also advise the use of firefox as a browser instead of IE.

I personally would stay with the top recommended products. Blink is by e eye which at one time was a decent AV company but today there are so many more advanced programs available and most for free. I changed from AVG to AVAST some time ago and really like AVAST. I think you mean comodo rather than commando? If so I no longer recommend it due to some changes in their business procedures and who they are associating with. I want the company I trust my pc to, to be totally above board on all aspects here is the latest AV poll done on BBR forums 2010 Anti Virus Poll you can view the results

Yacheryl, I was having a hard time also to find virus protection for a couple of my older computers. I now have "Avast" on my ME laptop (128 ram) and it works great. I put "Avira AntiVir" on the 98 computer and it works fine.