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I feel a lot of lowend antivirus may have a lot of different versions, and you need to pay a lot of money for the full version, and some buyers may cancel their subscription, and switch to a better antivirus which may cost less for the full version.
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I know the low end ones will be sneaked onto any type of software download, sometimes just be malware themselves.
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They may not offer much protection as well or outdated protection, and people maybe better off using the Antivirus which came pre-installed on their store bought computer.
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All store bought ones won't do a thing until you pay sadly.
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I thought they had a 15 day or longer trial which give you updates and real-time protection.

I feel people can scan downloaded files manually with Clamwin free scanner-only Antivirus which uses the free opensource ClamAV virus database. ClamAV virus definition database is used on some e-mail servers running Linux and other Operating Systems.
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froggyboy604 wrote:I thought they had a 15 day or longer trial which give you updates and real-time protection.

I feel people can scan downloaded files manually with Clamwin free scanner-only Antivirus which uses the free opensource ClamAV virus database. ClamAV virus definition database is used on some e-mail servers running Linux and other Operating Systems.
They do have a trial, but as soon as they find anything they want payment before removing it.
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I think some antivirus trials still have real-time protection and updates turned-on after the trial, but a lot of the more advance features are disabled.
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