The cost of not renewing anti-virus protection early
Buying anti-virus protection for your computer is a bit like buying health insurance for yourself as statistically speaking you are unlikely to need it, but it helps you sleep at night. It’s fear, often fuelled by the makers of these products that drives you to buying them and it’s that fear that ensures I buy one of the premium products each year rather than one of the many free versions you can download.
Once you have one of these products towards the end of the annual license they’ll prompt you to renew directly with them, in fact they make it very easy to renew but in my particular case at a price of £39.99. Now that’s a ludicrously high price considering I can buy the 2009 version of the same software for just £27.97 on Amazon, so that’s exactly what I did a couple of weeks in advance of my current license expiring.
