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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:26 am
by GORDON
It seems in the last year or so they have changed their philosophy about offering free antivirus protection.

Even though I have turned off all alerts, every day I get a pop-up from the system tray that I need to upgrade... it looks exactly like the upDATE popup, except for the one word. Not update, upgrade. I was dubious but curious the first time so I clicked through and read all the different windows, and at no time did it tell my it was taking me to the 30-day trial of the full version, but it was. So every day I decline the upgrade.

Today, it tells me I need an update. I am still dubious, but I click through, reading the windows.... and the very last one says I am about to begin the upgrade to the full version.

These fuckers are becoming assholes.

Anyone know another good, free antivirus that won't try to trick me?

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:39 am
by Leisher
I have always thought the freebies sucked. I work on a lot of personal systems and without fail, if they're littered with viruses, spyware, and malware they either have no protection or AVG.

Kaspersky is the top rated program right now. I think they're $20. I can get Trend for something like $7.50 through work and have some licenses I don't use.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:43 am
by TheCatt
I saw somewhere that BitDefender is the best free available, so I have that right now.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 12:48 pm
by Malcolm
Here. Been using the free version for years in conjunction with Ad Aware, also the free version.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:33 pm
by Vince
I've actually just been using Microsofts free stuff since Vista. I remember an article that came out where they found that a whole lot of slow system issues w/ Vista when it first came out was from programmers stepping into newly restricted memory space reserved for Vista. And AV software was one of the worst culprits. So I started using their free downloadable software (seems like it's part of Windows 8 now as near as I can tell) and haven't had any issues.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:45 pm
by TheCatt
Microsoft's free stuff has been losing ground lately in terms of protection.

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 10:02 pm
by Vince
Doesn't really surprise me. Might move to something else if I get burned.