Looking for a new anti-spyware/maleware program

[Worgen]

So I've used spybot forever and I upgraded to spybot 2.1 yesterday and it sucks, it slows down my browsing and from a few reviews I checked out after the fact, it seems like its not even very good at detecting spyware/maleware. It's tempting to go back to version 1.6 but this seems like a good time to try something new out. So what are some good anti-spyware/maleware programs?

 

[AWAR]

Spybot's main competitor has always been ad-aware, but I think the newer versions might be a little "heavy" as well.

 

[Jux]

I use malwarebytes, it works well for me, and is fairly user friendly.

 

[SnowyGamester]

ZoneAlarm and Microsoft Security Essentials are probably the best free security suites on the market.

ZoneAlarm is pretty lightweight, has some of the best detection rates (up there with the paid ones) with fairly few false positives, one of the most capable when it comes to removing infections, is pretty user friendly and doesn't nag too much.

MSE is probably the most light weight, easiest to use, least nagging and has the lowest false positives (though they're still there, if infrequent) of any security suite I've used, it's pretty good at finding and removing threats but certainly isn't the best.

I also hear a lot of good things about Avast! but I've not seen it much in action. I hesitate to recommend it since I often see it running on infected computers while it sits in the background doing little but asking people to pay for it, after which I get rid of it (or try to - it sometimes doesn't like to uninstall) and install ZoneAlarm then everything it sweet. I haven't run into ZoneAlarm or MSE in that same scenario as of yet.

Malwarebytes is also pretty good for detecting and removing infections however last I checked it doesn't offer real-time protection in the free version.

 

[Worgen]

ZoneAlarm and Microsoft Security Essentials are probably the best free security suites on the market.

ZoneAlarm is pretty lightweight, has some of the best detection rates (up there with the paid ones) with fairly few false positives, one of the most capable when it comes to removing infections, is pretty user friendly and doesn't nag too much.

MSE is probably the most light weight, easiest to use, least nagging and has the lowest false positives (though they're still there, if infrequent) of any security suite I've used, it's pretty good at finding and removing threats but certainly isn't the best.

I also hear a lot of good things about Avast! but I've not seen it much in action. I hesitate to recommend it since I often see it running on infected computers while it sits in the background doing little but asking people to pay for it, after which I get rid of it (or try to - it sometimes doesn't like to uninstall) and install ZoneAlarm then everything it sweet. I haven't run into ZoneAlarm or MSE in that same scenario as of yet.

Malwarebytes is also pretty good for detecting and removing infections however last I checked it doesn't offer real-time protection in the free version.

I'm using MSE as my antivirus but its not really build for spyware detection. I used to use zone alarm but it got pretty heavyweight, although I suppose they might have lessened it. I also used to use avast but its also an antivirus, not spyware.
I actually found out what spybot was doing that was slowing everything down, it has its own proxy server that by default it connects you though so that's why everything was loading slow for me. I turned that off and now things are running fine, I'm still not sure about how good it is, I've heard reviews that said version 2.0 was shit but this is 2.1.