Need antivirus that can ACTUALLY deal with fake antivirus

[villandra]

I need an antivirus program capable of effectively blocking and
properly removing fake antivirus/ security programs and system
hijacker viruses.

Reading the reviews there isn't a single program that didn't shine on
some companies' tests and flunk others', on recognizing these viruses,
blocking them, and thoroughly removing them. Program also needs to
be able to deal with rootkits, which many of these things are.

I'm particularly having trouble with picking these viruses up while
visiting legitimate web sites for legitimate reasons. So are half the
people I know. So I need real time protection that recoginzes and
blocks them - or else that warns me of any file trying to download or
anything trying to install. Seems the programs that have good
realtime protection can't recognize an actual threat or block it
before it disables teh antivirus program.

Yours,
Dora Smith

[Marky]

I use AVAST free AV and surf dodgy websites as part off my work and
never get fake AVs. Having said that, I never click on anything that
pops up etc (basically I use safe browsing practices).

There is no single program that will achieve what you are wanting.

However, maybe you should look at getting the pro version of AVAST. It
makes use of a safe zone browser, so ideally infections will be
isolated form the OS and deleted on computer restart.