Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35711643-20180528064459/@comment-9605025-20180528082511

As Cheeseskates said, it would be better to ask this elsewhere. This forum is meant for discussing Wikia wikis. However, you should be choosing your antivirus software based on the reputation of the publisher and source. Anyone can put together an "antivirus software" and then choose whether or offer it for free or not; using using free vs. paid is a bad metric. There are lots of free software out there that are actually viruses, so that is one thing to be careful of. The other is that freeware may not be reasonably maintained unless it is a large and popular project such as the Ubuntu OS.