Can You Rely On Free Antivirus Software?

The virus check & updates of free Antivirus programs are less frequent which means that new viruses & threats can easily attack your PC and data

. The major disadvantage of free Antivirus software is technical support. You can forget about the phone support in case something happens as there is usually no one to call and you can only seek help on online forums.

So this article would help you to understand what is needed in a security product. Its only error is in concluding that a free product does not provide these capabilities. Here are the points:

1. Free antivirus does not provide the protection to avoid identity theft

This is not true. Malware focused on stealing identity information is just malware. In principle it is not any different from malware focused on hijacking your computer, deleting your data, etc. There is no difference in detecting this malware. Talking about identity theft here is just marketing hype. Users are rightfully concerned about protecting their identity information.

2. There is a big gap between free antivirus protections against threat landscape

This is not true. What antivirus products used to do 10 years ago is not the same now. These days one needs to catch the infection much earlier. These days the most common way of getting infected is over the webby browsing web pages that are dirty or hijacked. Detecting these infections is one of the things that avast excel at. Free product protects not only against the execution of malware but also have heuristic detections, un-matched detections of infected java scripts, web shields, and behavior detections. This is at least equal, and sometimes better, than what is available in a paid product.

3. Attackers targeting legitimate websites considering free antivirus ineffective

This is not true. While the statement that attackers are targeting legitimate websites is correct, the implication that only a paid product can protect against this situation is absolutely wrong. In fact, some free product provides as good or better protection against such situation than any of the paid products.

4. Antivirus should be a last defense

Technically this is not true. But the fact is with many antiviruses there are many layers of defense and the strict definition of antivirus is in fact the last layer.

5. Free antivirus may not protect against drive by downloads

This is not true. Many free antivirus programs provide just as much protection, if not more, against these threats as the major paid products.

by: Rajat

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