said by B 
:Nah, don't blame the geek wannabes for that. People buy their HP or Dell and see NAV bundled on their desktop. Six months later the trial has expired, but they don't know/don't care until the machine slows down to a turgid mess of malware.
Finally they drag it in to these poor saps and demand that everything get fixed in an hour. Not a fun job, particularly if you're new at it.
Blame KAV, if you want, for not being as aggressive enough in its marketing so as to make itself present on the default Dell and HP et al. shipments. I bet if they undercut NAV by a few dollars
and included a full year or two of updates they could make some headway.
Then again, for all I know McAfee and Norton
pay Dell for the privilege of installing that trial software and lassoing in new suckers.
-- B
I'm not blaming the end user, I'm blaming the guy people pay a lot of money to. The guy that is supposed to be the expert and fix their computer..... the guy that sells them Norton. I see it all the time, a new client I acquired about 4 months ago had a franchise company like Geeks on Call work on their computers in the past (within the past year) and sell them Norton 2004. They have 4 workstations, one had 187 viruses, another 67, another 3 and the last had 8. All of these workstations had Norton 2004 up to date and setup by a "professional". I sold them KAV and it found what I said, this company receives hundreds of emails daily and KAV on average catches 10-20 viruses daily, many of which are from their own people at other locations with their own company..... all of which use SAV 10.
:D