Has The Antivirus Industry Gone Mad?!

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"We have seen a concerning trend that is about to spiral out of control: Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are further on the rise. What's even more concerning is how they are spreading. After big vendors as Oracle (Java) and Microsoft (Bing and Skype) started bundling, now antivirus vendors have joined the game. We did research on some of the most popular PUP practices among the freeware antivirus vendors, and the results are quite disturbing.

PUPs want to get on your computer to make money off of you"

http://blog.emsisoft.com/2015/01/17/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/

Re: Microsoft Security Essentials: done (Score: 1)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-03-11 18:28 (#4QYB)

MSE is possibly the one exception I would make to "no free antivirus". But I'd leave Symantec on, if they had it. Its not as bad as it used to be with resources. If they have it and maintain a subscription to it, that's fine by me.

I would try to remove McAfee, however unlikely the success of that particular operation may be...
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