I have been removing malware for a living for the last 5 years. These days, if malware has executed on your system you have already lost the game. With rootkit integration becoming VERY common with most malware, after it is on your system ANY AV will be powerless against it. Doesn't matter that your AV runs has over 9000 kernel mode drivers because so does the malware and they are more clever to load before the AV and hide from windows entirely. Your best bet is to have an AV with a strong realtime scanner and proactive heuristics. AV companies investing large resources into removal are wasting their time. I prefer AVs with small resource footprints and good efficient realtime scanners. I refuse to spend over 50% of my computer's resources to run a crappy AV product.This article is almost completely irrelevant and arbitrary and has no value at all.