<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

As the title says, I've had Avast and Ad-aware on auto update and live protection on, and for some reason I still managed to get infected. As my trust in those programs is kinda low right now. 
So I decided to follow many redditors recommendations and install MSE as Anti virus and the general consensus on the internet seems to be that Anti-Malware is the best Malware app round.

But is there anything else that I can do to protect myself?

Also anyone know how the hell it spreads? is it a worm?
I pretty much only had Reddit and some other pages open when all of a sudden a Java window pops up causing me to go "Hmmmm that's weird, I didn't start any java app, maybe just an update" , 15 seconds later I get a Virus varning "Hmm thats even weirder that doesn't look like the standard Avast nor Windows warnings" followed by a big "Fuuuuuuuck" as a Virus scanner I never seem before popped up on screen and a IE window opened with some porn site in it.

Big blow to the ego, never had a spyware or virus issue in 10-ish years
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