I have Bullguard as my AV but honestly I got rid of malware bytes, adwcleaner, hitmanpro, and JunkwareRemovalTool, because all of them were failing to detect a browser redirect I had before the system restore I did. They all just kept saying I my system was threat free which wasn't the case at all as I had this obvious browser redirect on every god damn page I went to by the name of acdm01.findgirl or something. I tried one called Zemana which actually detected like 17 threats after that, but then new ones appeared so that's why I decided to just system restore.
When I installed Bullguard it was blocking browser redirects before they could happen which I thought was cool tbh. I haven't had any browser redirects or fake software/drivers out of date messages at all since the system restore. However one thing that makes me anxious is after the system restore finished windows failed to load up 5 times before eventually saying "windows has recovered from a critical error". The only thing I notice different with my laptop now is I don't get those pictures posted to me when I startup...the ones they ask for for feedback