Okay, let me give you some proper information.
anti virus software ist useless. completely and utterly useless.
Why?
Because they can't keep up with the bad guys. Every av-company has databanks full of hundreds of thousands of potential virus or other malware. Most of them are just derivates of other malwares and most of them are not analyzed.
Remember Stuxnet? The virus who was supposed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program in 2010? It was written by Israel (and with help of the US?) and guess what…the mainbody of this virus was in those databanks for years and just nobody had time to analyze it.
And well..the applications themselves. A lot of av-software digs deep into your system and is hard to control or just a pain in the ass to configure and some even have annoying ads etc.
Mostly they are just going to report files based on an heuristic approach (they scan and analyze the file and say statistically it could do something bad). So they have pretty much no clue.
And well….anti virus software is dead..said the senior vice president for information security of Symantec
So…
1. I wouldnt look up for benchmark tests or scores or reviews of anti virus software I have to pay for. They are not worth your money.
2. Start using brain.exe. If the website seems shady dont use it.
3. Use your browser and its features. Like NoAds Plugin or the automated domain security check all the browser do in the background and configure your browser correctly (turn java off and sometimes even java-script etc).
4. Get some free av-programs. You dont need the whole range of features like real time protection. For example: iirc Spybot Search & Destroy blocks known bad sites by putting them into your localhost file (so the urls will be redirected to your own computer ergo you cant even surf to these websites to begin with).
5. if in doubt use www.virustotal.com