TommyGunn said:
Any thoughts on Bitdefender? Seems to be a lot cheaper with black Friday, which Kaspersky isn't seeming to take part of being Russian and all.
AV software is one place not to skimp. Just remember the inconvenience you are currently going though and that you never get more than you have paid for!

The last batch of RansomWare derived from leaked NSA/CIA spyware tools spread in a day to hundreds of thousands of machines. It takes money to stay on top of every new malware release, to analyze it and release an update to identify, neutralize it fast.

A quick search on google, Bitdefender

If you are concerned that Kasperky is Russian based.

As I mentioned above, my wife worked to develop algorithms to find and suppress tolls, malware, adware, bots at mail.ru/moi.mir and in the process had to trace down suspected links.....some of the most infected sites you could imagine and Kaspersky always protected.

Also, as Shaggy pointed out, you should be using a firewall/router. Such routers though, will only protect you from infected machines probing for new victims. If you click on a link to an infected site, only AV software with up to date virus definitions can protect you.