“The malware problem has become too large and too costly to manage for a free product.

More than a million new malicious programs appear every month.

This is especially true if the market is saturated,” Haber told Lifewire via email.

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The malware problem has become too large and too costly to manage for a free product.

Correction 12/16/21:Corrected the spelling of Darshit Ashara’s name in the second-to-last paragraph.

An abstract Warning of a detected malware program on a computer screen.

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