Quote Originally Posted by Avilan the Grey View Post
Again, in my experience only products that have a free option do that.
Avira, Avast and AVG among others.
They've all done it at varying points in time. Last time I saw Norton AV it was advertising their online backup service with excessive toast notifications that ignored the disable checkmark while breaking TCP/IP because their firewall broke, and McAfee has a longstanding tradition of releasing nagware along with every copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader ever, just for the easy starters.

If they don't do it now, they will in the future when their shareholders get antsy because numbers are down.