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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 874350" data-attributes="member: 57233">That saying isn&#039;t always true and the least true with antiviruses. Ok, avast! was doing some stuff as a side thing, but in an essence, the point of free antiviruses are 2 things:- Giving you some free features which might give you eventual incentive to buy a more feature rich version- Cloud participation, cloud systems are most effective when you have huge amounts of users, free users act like additional malware sensors that help paying customers be protected betterSo, no, it&#039;s not necessary for you to be the product when AV vendor is still indirectly benefiting from you participating in their cloud system. And today, big data is everything. Just knowing rather in-depth how avast!&#039;s cloud system works, the more feedback you&#039;re getting from &quot;sensors&quot; (users), the more effective it is. And I think pretty much any cloud system works this way. These cloud systems run machine learning clusters which are doing the file sorting and classification, because human analysts can&#039;t manually analyze massive amounts of programs and malware released every day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 874350, member: 57233"] That saying isn't always true and the least true with antiviruses. Ok, avast! was doing some stuff as a side thing, but in an essence, the point of free antiviruses are 2 things: - Giving you some free features which might give you eventual incentive to buy a more feature rich version - Cloud participation, cloud systems are most effective when you have huge amounts of users, free users act like additional malware sensors that help paying customers be protected better So, no, it's not necessary for you to be the product when AV vendor is still indirectly benefiting from you participating in their cloud system. And today, big data is everything. Just knowing rather in-depth how avast!'s cloud system works, the more feedback you're getting from "sensors" (users), the more effective it is. And I think pretty much any cloud system works this way. These cloud systems run machine learning clusters which are doing the file sorting and classification, because human analysts can't manually analyze massive amounts of programs and malware released every day. [/QUOTE]

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