The story of the AntiVirus Software

[Mashiane]

Rather interesting. Two different products, same user interface, one completely free, one not so much.

And then again, to activate some features, one needs to "activate"...

Lol..

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

For me antivirus are like vaccines, it is another virus that you allow to don't get infected with a much dangerous virus

 

[EnriqueGonzalez]

ha, it seems i am not the only one that thinks that!

Source: https://9gag.com/gag/a85GmZp

 

[sorex]

A few weeks ago I read an article about the guy behind McAfee (yes, his name is McAfee aswell) who's going completely loco.

The strategy they used at the start was simply scaring people with worst case scenarios (read lies).

You can still see this strategy with the free ones like AVG. A few times a day you get these pop-ups like

"you ip address is visible to externals"
"some passwords are found on your system that are not encrypted"
"some processes slow down you computer" they always forget to list their own applications tho

all this is done to make you shit your pants and buy their "solving" solutions

 

[Deleted member 103]

Since I switched to Windows-10, I use only Windows own virus scanner (Windows Defender), and have no problems.
All other virus scanners are, according to many reviews, not better.