What happens when your antivirus software is past the renewal date?

[Boojatta]

Poll question: What happens when your antivirus software is past the renewal date?

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. ....you are so, so screwed!!! nt

;-)

[firefox_fan]

2. Computer catches fire.

LOL.
Usually it keeps working, no updated virus defs.

[Patsy Stone]

3. All the viruses creep out of the computer at night

and replicate themselves into you. :scared:

[GoneOffShore]

4. You ditch your PC and buy a Mac. N/T

[murray hill farm]

5. The renewal folks (who work on commission)

do secret and scary stuff to your computor until you renew.

[Purveyor]

6. You find one of the many 'free' anti-virus software programs and

never have to worry about 'renewal' again.

I'm currently using AVG by Grisoft after finally getting fed up with the Comcast provided McAfee software.

It can be found here:

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-anti-virus-free

[Junkdrawer]

7. You install a free virus shield...

http://www.avast.com

[MissWaverly]

9. I have Avast as well and put it on my sister's laptop

there is no fee for residential non-business use and it's wonderful, fast, updates and this was after I paid mucho bucks for Norton and was aggravated for 2 months.

Miss Waverly

[BlueJazz]

8. Other : If you're a regular user, you wise up and quit paying for....

...Antivirus software. (There's lot of free ones tht work well.)

OR...you buy the best one >> NOD32

[B Calm]

10. You delete it and download the AVG Free Edition!

[ChiciB1]

11. DING, DING, DING... The Very BEST Answer!!! It's FREE & Works

GREAT! I just took my PC to those who built it today and I was using AVAST... he told me get rid of it and use AVG7.5! It's free and easy and I LOVE IT!

I was told Avast was better, but now I see IT'S NOT!! Get thee to AVG!!!

[tech3149]

12. It keeps nagging you to spend more money

I've got MacAfee, Norton, and others sitting on the shelf. I've gone to Avira and still get nagged but the are kind enough to let me use it for free. I'd pay if I had the scratch but it sucks when you're poor.

edit: corrected sticking keyboard