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With a good operating system, it will warn you BEFORE it offers you the option to install a problem program.

Also, I've run Windows from 1981 up until 2010 and the whole time, my military friends were telling me that I'd be happier with a MAC.
Like all young G.I.s I thought cheaper was better.
Finally I decided to try it, and I wish I'd have done it when I first was told to.
Boy would I have saved money on security programs, firewalls, virus protection, 2-year updates to new versions of Windows.
What an idiot I was, to hold on to Windows.

Also a very dear friend of mine got a 4 year degree in computer Science, not Computer Information Systems, and she was shocked in the programmer differences between Windows, Linux, and Mac OS II.
She told me of the Windows Operating System and how it was full of holes, never finished, and always out to sell you a "fix" or a "Newer Version".
But stick to it, if you want to waste your time AND your money.
What's it to me?
I'm just trying to save you from the mistakes I made.

I have been working with computers since 1983. I have sold them, built them, written software for and networked them. I hated Apple. I considered it overpriced, non-compatible and people who used them were stupid.

Today, between myself and my company, I own 3 iMacs, 2 Mac Pros, two Macbooks, 4 iPads, 4 iPhones, two Mac Minis, and AppleTV.

I discovered that the price/performance difference between Mac and Windows was negligible. I also discovered that software for the Mac is generally MUCH cheaper, especially when it comes to networking and business software. We have no issues with viruses, malware, registry errors, defragmenting, or any of the other maintenance chores that are a part of using Windows in a business. We have had one hardware failure, a shared storage drive, and frankly we were overtaxing it and should have used a server.

So, to your question, what good anti-malware software would I recommend? I really couldn’t tell you, I stopped using that kind of software 6 years ago when I switched to Mac.

Boy would I have saved money on security programs, firewalls, virus protection, 2-year updates to new versions of Windows.

I have been using windows for about 20 years, and almost all that time on discarded computers from other people, and even from the alley, but I never had to pay for any security or upgrade, or anything of that sort.

I like using free security.

Yah... Apple computers are so secure you never have to run any antivirus or anti malware.

Botnets depend on this sort of arrogance. Apple computers are unix computers, and so 99+ percent of them worldwide are unpatched and running no anti malware apps because their owners don’t think they need to. Makes them just beautiful targets for Botnets. And nobody ever knows they were there.