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<blockquote data-quote="Littlebits" data-source="post: 173612" data-attributes="member: 146">In my opinion, there is no proof that paid security software can protect users any better than free security software.Paid security software does have more protection features but users can get infected just as well. Paid security software also has a lot of bloatware and unnecessary features. Paid security software is also more likely to have more false positive detections of safe files.&nbsp; In the past, I have had some customers with more infections using a paid security suite over other customers just using using free AV.All security software can do is protect users who care, are cautious and want to learn. It doesn&#039;t make much difference which security setup they use. From my experience, I could say that I have not found one product which would protect all users better than the rest. Some of my customers can just use Microsoft and never get infections while others will pay for Bitdefender Internet Security, Norton Internet Security, Eset Smart security and other paid software and their system is running over with several hundred infections. Which proves to me that user actions plays the largest factor when it comes to protecting a system. You can choose to either use paid security software or free security software and if you are not a cautious user, you will still get infected.So the choice is up to you, would you rather pay for a software and still get infected or just use a free software? If you did get infected just using a free software at least you can say, I didn&#039;t have to pay to get an infection. Thanks. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite116" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Littlebits, post: 173612, member: 146"] In my opinion, there is no proof that paid security software can protect users any better than free security software. Paid security software does have more protection features but users can get infected just as well. Paid security software also has a lot of bloatware and unnecessary features. Paid security software is also more likely to have more false positive detections of safe files. In the past, I have had some customers with more infections using a paid security suite over other customers just using using free AV. All security software can do is protect users who care, are cautious and want to learn. It doesn't make much difference which security setup they use. From my experience, I could say that I have not found one product which would protect all users better than the rest. Some of my customers can just use Microsoft and never get infections while others will pay for Bitdefender Internet Security, Norton Internet Security, Eset Smart security and other paid software and their system is running over with several hundred infections. Which proves to me that user actions plays the largest factor when it comes to protecting a system. You can choose to either use paid security software or free security software and if you are not a cautious user, you will still get infected. So the choice is up to you, would you rather pay for a software and still get infected or just use a free software? If you did get infected just using a free software at least you can say, I didn't have to pay to get an infection. Thanks. :D [/QUOTE]

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