Anonymous

UK

Consultant

To my mind, the AV software companies are making a lot of money on the backs of criminals..

If people did not write malicious software, then there would be no reason to have software to combat it.

It is therefore in the best interests of AV companies for viruses to be in existence. No viruses, no AV software, no profit..

Makes you wonder who is writing the viruses in the first place, or who is paying who to write them and keep them in existence

I think ALL software designed to combat malicious attacks should be free to the customer. It is not the users fault when they get infected. Most antispyware is free, most firewalls are free, so why not AV software.

It then follows that, if free, nobody needs to copy it, so the pirating of such would disappear.