Brookfield, your staunch defence of AVG astonishes me. I think you are hardly placed to comment having seemingly tried nothing else, and let me tell you as a professional that AVG is free for a reason. It is hopelessly inefficient and has a bad detection mechanism when you compare it to other solutions like NOD32. If somebody else wishes to use a different solution I think you should let them.
Corporate customers will use Kaspersky Corporate Edition or F-Secure. Those products are built for bulletproof protection from the ground up as opposed to toys like AVG Free and Norton to keep the home user happy in the illusion of their system supposedly being secure.
What do you do on the Internet? Have you had a chance to test out AVG to its fullest? I should think you would want to change your opinion after doing so, trust me.
EDIT: Re-reading this thread I see that you are running two firewalls which is apparently keeping virii out of your system. That in itself is a Delia Smith Disaster Recipe and you should never have two software firewalls active on the same system.
EDIT 2: I think it highly unprofessional and uncalled for of you as a moderator to dismiss DJ-CHRIS's opinion as "rubbish" when I have seen, even in a short time, his ability with computers far outshines yours. I will also say that I am a professional in the industry and DJ-CHRIS has posted a couple of things I did not actually know. The key word here is "professional", you might like to try that as that has been somewhat lacking from some of your posts I have read here. You are coming across as a total idiot and your asinine comments and attitude to others, well I just dare you to try that in real life as opposed to hiding behind your screen and keyboard.