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From what I"ve seen based on the number of customers we have who bring in computers so riddled with viruses that they won't function (about 500 so far this year
by kellishaver 17y ago
From what I"ve seen based on the number of customers we have who bring in computers so riddled with viruses that they won't function (about 500 so far this year in a town of 15k people), it's dangerous to rely on Symantec, because about 90% of those computers have Norton anti-virus installed on them. The rest are McAfee or nothing. I've never seen a computer with a free antivirus program like AVG or Avast as badly infected.... not saying it doesn't happen, just that I don't see it. My guess is that a lot of people who know enough to hunt down free antivirus software probably no enough to fix their computer when something does happen.
- pj 17y agoI would suggest this is partly due to the fact that computer users who know about and install these software packages are more literate in general and therefore more likely to use their computers in ways less likely to be infected.