Windows 8
While typing I hit a button somewhere and now everything has been reduced to where I can't read it. This is a new computer, I have searched fore the answer but can't find what happened. I should a...
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burlmart wrote:
Something I do not get here is why so many companies are so eager to give everybody free security protection (I assume that most never upgrade to the pay versions of the AV software)
They all offer paid versions with more features, both at the consumer and enterprise levels. However, their core AV engines and technology is the same for both the free and paid versions. Enough users apparently do upgrade to paid versions to make offering a free edition feasible.
In my experience, I've never had any of my systems compromised using free AV software. Can't say that for a very popular paid AV suite in early 2000, which failed to detect a real time exploit and wiped my hard drive clean on a desktop.
The question to ask is why leave the door open to additional threats that MSE fails to detect, and other free AV software do? Especially important to consider if you're not a techie to deal with exploits to begin with?
