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I have installed Avasta free antivirus. After a few weeks it is asking me to upgrade in order to continue. &nbsp;It shouldn't ask me for that because it's a free product ? Did &nbsp;I forget to uncheck some tricky check box during the installation ? If that is the case do you have a step by step on how to fix this &nbsp;issue please.<br />
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Thank you so much
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I have installed Avasta free antivirus. After a few weeks it is asking me to upgrade in order to continue.  It shouldn't ask me for that because it's a free product ? Did  I forget to uncheck some tricky check box during the installation ? If that is the case do you have a step by step on how to fix this  issue please.

Thank you so much

Avasta free Antivirus

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.

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Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge; it has also come to include programs that engage in various kinds of electronic fraud. Anti-spyware is software that removes or blocks that software; some common vendors include Malwarebytes, McAfee, Spybot-Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware and BitDefender.