01-31-2007, 03:12 AM
Quote:There's no way some AOL toolbar is the only catch. Call me paranoid if you want, but big companies like AOL don't just give stuff like that away.
I've been using it for a few days now, and there is no catch as far as I can tell. I had to supply an email address for an activation key, but the activation email came from Kapersky and not AOL.
I don't see why it's hard to imagine companies giving away free software. Google has been doing it for years. WinRAR gives away free registration keys every now and then. There are any number of game companies that release older games as freeware.
In my limited time using it, AVS is far superior to AVG. The interface is less clunky, it offers way more real-time protection, it uses less in the way of active system resources, and it auto-updates virus definitions in a completely invisible manner.
So far my only beef with AVS is that I can't seem to configure it to ignore my 3.5" floppy drive. This might be a good thing because at least I know my floppy drive still works (I've only ever used it to install SATA drivers when I installed Windows), but it makes a god awful racket when it tries to access a diskette that isn't there.