Why must I have paid subscription for antivirus, firewall and antispware when i can get them for free too?

Question

Avira Antivir Classic is free antivirus. PC tool firewall is free and Ad-adaware is free antispyware.

So then why i need to buy paid subscription to mcafee or norton?

Answer 1

norton is about the worst thing you can have on your computer and mcafee misses 50+ prcent of viruses norton is worse.. they just want to syphin money out of you

Answer 2

the best antivirus is avg at www.avg.com its totally free and is one the best there is.

Answer 3

Because they want to take advantage of the people who don't know about the free and effective antivirus programs. Its much better going to a tech forum and asking what antivirus programs are best to download, rather than googling it and ending up with something that might harm your computer instead.

Answer 4

Although Avria has excellent detection rates, it historically has returned a huge amount of false-positive detections. Some of the worst numbers in the anti-malware industry.

Although to be fair, Avria did improve in the latect test at A-V comparatives.org. Perhaps the trend will continue. Who knows?