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Interesting how the antivirus software companies are so on board (I mean, AVG gives it stuff away for free). Any thoughts as to why this is?



On one hand there is a lot of pirating of antivirus software, and yet to some extent P2P does increase the need to have it installed on one's system (which may increase demand/business).


I feel like antivirus software is less piratable than a lot of things though - you need to constantly update through a centralized server which checks your credentials (which are inevitably false if you've pirated the software).




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