The article should be corrected then, it says "Grooten and Simon [...] still [recommend] getting a third-party one". If that doesn't mean "pay money, or get your newtab page hijacked", then what does it mean?
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There's free AV (actually, there's a lot of them, including some of the bigger names), but I don't think I discussed with
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Replying to @martijn_grooten @taviso and
How many of the free AV are just a way of upselling the commercial offering? For all its faults at least Defender doesn’t (yet?) pop up adverts everyday saying you’d be better upgrading to Defender Internet Security with Ultimate Phishing Protection.
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Replying to @tiraniddo @martijn_grooten and
A discussion on business models is a very interesting one. But I think if we get into that then we get into how your company makes money and it all gets derailed.
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Replying to @lorenzofb @tiraniddo and
As we suggest in our "guide to not getting hacked" (which is a guide intended for the "average" user), using OSs that have tight controls (ChomeOS, iOS) can be a good solution. But in the real world, not everyone can afford an Apple device, so they buy cheap Androids.
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Replying to @lorenzofb @tiraniddo and
And ChromeOS is hard to use for many things you need everyday.
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Replying to @lorenzofb @tiraniddo and
As opposed to Windows, which is so simple for everyday users to use, that you believe you need to subscribe to a crappy third party product just to make it safe enough to use?
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Replying to @taviso @tiraniddo and
I don't know if I believe that. This is why this story was so hard to write. I don't know the answer to these questions. And as this discussion proved, very smart people in this world fundamentally disagree too.
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Replying to @lorenzofb @tiraniddo and
I dunno, your article reads like you didn't have any problems reaching a conclusion. I didn't finish it with the feeling that you were trying to say "smart people disagree", I got more of a "get out your chequebook if you want to be safe" vibe...
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Replying to @taviso @tiraniddo and
If we want to recap other people's arguments, I'd say yours also boils down to "get out your chequebook if you want to be safe."
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I fail to see how, last I checked, not installing antivirus was free?
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