Best Anti-Adware?

I have an adware virus in my pc, avast, avg, malwarebytes cannot scan my computer and find the obvious adware. what is the best anti-malware/adware/virus program for windows 10?

Use something like Malware Bytes Antimalware and Avast or Kaspersky to clean your system up.  Then...
A long-term strategy for reducing virus and ad exposure is to use the MVPS hosts file, which has the effect of locally resolving a rather large list of "bad" web site names to 0.0.0.0.  In practical terms, this hammers most advertisements
and if malware actually does get onto your computer and tries to reach its home base by accessing a site by name that name may well be in the list of "parasite" web sites and so it will be blocked.  It's an idea worth considering. 
I use their hosts file on all my systems.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
A second facet that augments this strategy nicely is to reconfigure Internet Explorer to
NOT allow ActiveX to run AT ALL from the Internet Zone.  It turns out very few sites actually need ActiveX programs to run in order to work properly (most likely because most popular browsers CAN'T run
ActiveX).  If you do this - which increases security greatly - Microsoft will (e.g., after Windows Updates) suggest that you return Internet Explorer to "recommended settings".  Don't do it!  Microsoft's recommended settings are far
too promiscuous and will get you all kinds of STDs (software transmitted diseases).
Good luck.
-Noel
Detailed how-to in my eBooks:  
Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
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