So buy their fake reports and sue them out of existance.
As for AV vendors being fear based, it may look ike that and there is danger of that but we all know that their are viruses and malware out there and if you think a for profit AV may be part of the fud, use one of the very good and free alternatives.
using Microsaofts av product will probably be enough for those who are careful so yes use it if you have any incling of what you are doing, or use avg or avast.
If you are a business you must have something to back up your av product of choice so use a good paid for one.
But I never trust any one product completely my self so I use one installed product on all systems and once in a while (you decide week or month) I also use one of the other vendors on-line products just to be sure. Installing two is asking for trouble but using the web version (I use housecall) does not cause the same issue with the installed and always active one.
And please remember people that the fault for the virus and malware issues is Not the user, Not the AV Vendor and not the OS vendor. 100% of the blame must rest squarely on the shoulders of the malware, scareware, virus and now malicious rogue testers. Anyone blaming the user, legit vendors , legit researchers or OS/software vendors is losing focus on the fact that there are criminals out there that must be stopped somehow.
I'm just not sure our current efforts are focused on the correct people. Yes we have to use av and anti-malware, but we are not seeing enough prosecution of the malware writers. We have to make it not profitable for them and start putting more of them in jail.
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