From Cloud Eight Info Ave Premium:
It appears that many of the rumors floating around about Avast, AVG, anti-virus programs and Kerio, Outpost, and Sygate firewalls are true. If you haven't heard, it looks like 2006 will bring an end to free anti-virus programs AVG and AVAST have been offering the Internet community for many years. And, Kerio, Sygate, and Outpost will not being offering free software firewalls much longer either. We suspect it has to do with these companies trying to survive in light of the fact that the next version of Windows will come with full-featured firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware software pre-installed.