Dark Reading: Expired Antivirus Software No. 1 Cause Of Unprotected Windows 8 PCs

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New data from Microsoft shows that nearly 10% of Windows 8 users are running expired AV software on their systems, making them four times more likely to get infected.

11/13/2014
By Jai Vijayan

The trial versions of anti-malware software that people typically get with their new PCs and notebooks are just that. Once the software expires, it’s as bad as having no malware protection at all on a system.

As obvious as that might sound to some, a lot of people apparently don’t get it.

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