The free version was comprehensive, at one point, you only paid if you were a business. I used this as a free backup when I had free McAfee the 1st 2 yrs that came with my computer, Avast caught so many things that McAfee missed. IMHO, MUCH better than all of the retail ones I have ever tried. Not had a successful virus get through in the 6 years of paid use (or the 5 of unpaid). Have had the program stop me dead before a Trojan Horse tried to open. Was a user of the FREE full version for 5 years (used to be free for all residential users for the full version!), then had to upgrade to reasonably priced full version. You just know there is one fat cat making a buttload of money while I now go more broke every year. I will have to start looking at different companies after 20 years with this one company. No way to bundle packages to save money anymore, either. I wrote to them that it was getting out of control, but unlike the old AVAST, they had no time to write me back. I am sad to have to put forth this update.
I have been with this company since their early days on the net, when it was free for residential customers, but are now to big for their britches, and charge far to much, and are always finding new ways of nickel and diming you. Last straw, you used to get phone version for free when you paid for everything else, and now I have to pay $6 a year (yes, I know that is minor, but by next year, they wil charge $20 a year, for sure. You used to be able to buy a package, and it covered everything, and now they separate everything, and then charge you for each thing, so it no longer is cost effective unless you have multiple computers.
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