![]() Norton shrieks at its customers with new products on nearly every interaction with it, and will not let you delete your My Norton account it’s like the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme!īitdefender, founded eight years after the youngest elder developer, AVG, has a lot less bloat and upsell obnoxiousness. Their products seem to have as many upsell features as security features, perhaps more.Īvast has been getting on my nerves with its steadily increasing popups urging me to try this or that feature which is only available by “upgrading,” which means “spending more money.” AVG exposed its trusting customers to hackers in order to earn a few pennies with a fatally flawed toolbar. ![]() They have become what their idealistic shareware founders abhorred: greedy, tricky, bloated, complacent corporations preying upon people’s FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The elder companies seem to have lost their way, frankly. Avast and Norton emerged in 1991, while AVG appeared in 1993 and Bitdefender in 2001. MalwareBytes, founded in 2008, is by far the youngest of the security software companies I have reviewed so far.
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