Suspicious adware behavior, despite layers of protection
I run Malwarebytes in monitoring mode and Spyhunter 4 performs a scheduled scan on my system every night. On top of this, my Avira AV suite provides anti malware/adware protection, too. However, every night, Spyhunter 4 turns up 70+ adware incursions, all "minor" (i.e. one bar out of four on its threat scale) and almost always the same ones.
I'm wondering if something in my very well-protected system is generating this crap regardless of all the above pro-active measures?
Can anyone please advise on the following possible courses of action:
- Swap out the two anti-malware procedures described above so that SpyHunter 4 does the background monitoring and Malwarebytes does the nightly scan. I figured there'd be a conflict and/or too much of a draw on system resources if I have them both set to monitor simultaneously, is this a sound assumption?
- Is there a magic bullet app that will stop this daily recurrence of the same low-level crapware?
- I never visit pron sites or other dubious places on the Web, my browsing habits are very conventional and respectable. I visit a lot of game forums and PC gaming sites. Should I change my 5-tab homepage or otherwise alter my browsing habits? I have the latest version of IE.
Thanks, guys, as always I'm grateful for the expertise on tap here.
