What do we tell our beloved friends and family to do about antivirus??

We used AVG FREE for the past few years, and we installed that on a LOT of computers - we started noticing a trend though - computers have been coming in to our shop with virus infections, while AVG appears to be installed and functioning properly!  It just isn't catching them like it used to..

This does not necissarily apply to the corporate and network versions of AVG, but we have started using Avast on all of our 'free' installations.  Avast seems to be the current BEST ANTIVIRUS in the free category.  We use it with another couple free tools to do most of our virus removal work.  Avast and combofix can take care of most anything that is out there right now. 

You can easily get avast from their website, avast.com - just download the home/free version - all you have to do is give them your email address for a license.