Once you have things working again? iObit's Security 360 (a free download from cnet.com) has two nifty features: Security Holes, I think it's called; and Passive Security, likewise. The latter has long lists of sites such as doubleclick.com, doubleclick.net, & cetera, that it loads into the security settings of your browsers. (It did for two of the three I use, anyway, and cut-and-paste took care of the third.)
I wasn't terribly happy with AVG. Instead, I've been using ZoneAlarm plus Avast(free) plus supplemental/zero-day software ThreatFire for ... gosh, a couple of years now, I guess ... on my machine and my mother's (she's notorious). The only infection either of us has had in that time was something her PC picked up from a game site, when my nephew overrode all the security bells and whistles.
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I wasn't terribly happy with AVG. Instead, I've been using ZoneAlarm plus Avast(free) plus supplemental/zero-day software ThreatFire for ... gosh, a couple of years now, I guess ... on my machine and my mother's (she's notorious). The only infection either of us has had in that time was something her PC picked up from a game site, when my nephew overrode all the security bells and whistles.