John R. Dennison wrote:
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:27:52PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Well, larger and lager fear of malware, trojans and regular viruses is excellent motivator. Especially when you add need to pay for good AV/IS solution. My country men are poor and paying even 20 EUR per year for good AV/IS software is something they hate and most never do. And when you add the slowdown good AV/IS brings... jackpot.
Meh. Avast, and others, have free licenses for non-commercial usage. If you're talking about commercial usage that's another story.
Neah. I am talking on how those free AV's are not worth the time spent in installing them. Only heavy-hitters like KIS (KAV not so much) Symantec NIS and one or two others are capable to stop really nasty bug taking over. Even heavy-hitters any at risk if they have idiot controlling them.
I am cleaning after those free security software for ~10 years now. Last 5 years I only use Avira Free for stubborn customers with newly installed Windows or KIS in *any* other case (cleaning, securing). They (those free ones) are like having closed but unlocked doors in dangerous neighborhood. Bad guys think it's locked. But when they figure doors are unlocked....bye-bye.
Ljubomir