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Modern antivirus software has gotten much more aggressive about malware detection, though. (Viruses try to replace system files with modified versions that do harm or they replicate themselves once they get on a PC.) Malware can be software you voluntarily installed because of a useful feature it provides (like a browser add on toolbar), but it slows everything down reporting what you do on the PC to some outside source collecting that data, or other things that just don’t meet a traditional description of virus code.

The reason they used to tell people to run both antivirus and an anti malware product at the same time was a failure on the part of traditional antivirus products to block harmful software that didn’t strictly meet the definition of a virus. Malware Bytes is the “gold standard” for malware detection and removal right now. But I wouldn’t bother with it today except maybe to install and run once as part of an infected system cleaning. Spybot was good 10 years ago, and I believe the authors have tried to keep the product somewhat current since then. I used to do on site PC service for a living and back then, we’d use several antivirus and malware products in attempts to clean up infected systems.

Personally, I recommend Malware Bytes over Spybot.

Spybot search and destroy free for windows 10