In this competitive world of advanced technology, the advancement has been taken place in both good and bad sense. We have seen great innovations and also in parallel we see and equal number of things meant for such destructive purposes.
One such very common observations is the virus infections. Today we can see most of the computer users will have their computer / flash drives infected with one or the other viruses. Spywares are type of identity stealers which are left to spy you. The simply keep on running and steal different personal and critical data and provide the same to the creator. If such data includes your credit card transaction details or online account passwords, you are gone. We have antivirus software to combat such issues and keep your computer safe always.
Antivirus softwares are that kind of softwares which stand at the first line of MUST HAVE softwares for any computer user. The total number of infections have increased to a very huge number that you cannot even imagine in numbers. Antivirus softwares will have database of all these viruses and other infections and will not allow them to infect you PC. You will be alerted if some program / software shows such kind of suspicious behavior. If the infection is already listed in the database, these AV programs kill the infections themselves helping you save your PC.
It becomes a vital part of the user that he / she should update their antivirus software very regularly. Few antivirus programs provide updates hourly and if not, daily update is definite. You have to keep your virus database updated to ensure complete protection as threats origin everyday and everyday new viruses spread, if your antivirus database is not update, there is no meaning in using an antivirus.

I would recommend getting Norton Anti-Virus to protect your computer. If you already are infected try out Malwarebytes. This usually does a good job of cleaning up your computer.