Okay, so the same day I was reading about Patti's bad virus problem our computer also got hit (and no, I didn't click on that link). Apparently a malware thing. We took it to a computer repair place in town and had it back within 2 days. He said it had wiped out our hard drive. Not sure what that specifically means because I expected to lose documents, bookmarks and pictures that were on there but it came back fully restored. So they fixed all that and went ahead and installed Spybot on it. That was not one that I had. I only had AVG free version.
So, now I want to get as much (free) protection as I can so I'm asking what works for everyone else? I know that V. mentioned the malware bytes one (which I wasn't aware of). And I have spybot and AVG. Anything else?
Hopefully this will help everyone else and remind everyone to get protection if they don't already have it!