avira is the best if you want only antivirus but if you want internet security which is called firewall, nod32 is the best nowadays imo. It even prevents ARP poisoning, it means if someone tries to steal your password through the local internet it reports his local ip address and kills the connection between you and him. Its what I most like with nod32. in addition to these you can use Zemana anti keylogger which prevents you from the trojans, keyloggers, botnets that antiviruses can't catch. it has a system totally different from antiviruses. It catch viruses when they are trying to open keylogger, webcam, filetransfer etc...
so nod32 + zamana would be unbreakable. If you were good at viruses only zemana antilogger would help you alone

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I entered one quite strange website

i can imagine that website xXx.com xD i heard that some of 'internet epic fails and some other red/pink adults only footage is recorded in that way - be aware of that ppl

McAfee has a new At Large version out.

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So you'd rather work on a castrated OS than install one piece of helpful software? You're a funny guy, Skull.

castrated OS is a must go because its twice as fast as normal win xp.

That's your choice. I would never pick functionality over speed, especially since if your PC isn't an antique and you're doing some maintenance on the OS periodically, it will run reasonably fast.

using antivir doesn't fix the source of the problem, neither it is more secure since antivir programs always are a bit behind (hours/days) behind the newest infections.

Basically you need to deinstall java/flash, browse websites in Plaintext and disable autorun/installer services. As long as all of these components of a pc are infectable, nothing can protect ur pc.