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A Little Economic Stimulus: Free Antivirus By Rob PegoraroThursday, February 12, 2009Using Windows has traditionally required paying a tax of sorts. Not to Microsoft but to the vendor of the antivirus program you install to protect your PC. This tax has come not just in the form of purchase prices and annual subscription fees but also in the time needed to maintain increasingly complicated security tools.
This influx of free antivirus choices may make life even less pleasant for developers of "payware" security tools. But for people looking to trim their computing costs in any way possible, it can't happen fast enough.
Avast's bigger issue, however, may be its requirement that you register with the Czech company through e-mail, then renew that registration once a year. That's just enough of a chore that distracted users may let their updates lapse.