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Re:Symantec: it’s dangerous to rely on free antivirus by SwellJoe on Sunday July 05, 2009 @12:42PM (#688388)
Higher detection rates just means more false positives.

Or better detection of viruses.

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Re:Symantec: it’s dangerous to rely on free antivirus by wyday on Sunday July 05, 2009 @12:48PM (#688397)
Ideally, yes. And that's certainly how companies are marketing their free AVs. The reality is that before we started signing all of our software, the free AVs detected it as a virus.

It's bad for business when you have to defend your product as not a virus (on top of trying to sell it!)

I wrote about it 2 years ago: http://wyday.com/blog/2007/useful-instantupdate-feedback/

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