So surprise for me this morning, when, straight after an auto-update of the virus definitions on the laptop, I get this popup, advertising their “new” Internet Security Suite.

This just caught me by surprise, as I’ve never seen this with AVG before, and it’s probably buried somewhere in their terms and conditions that they can do this.

On the one hand I feel it’s a bit cheeky to do such blatant popup spam, which is something one would expect your typical adware/malware app to do. On the other hand though, I feel Grisoft is quite within their right to advertise their paid-for products to those of us that make use of their free products. I mean, their software is saving probably millions of people lots of time and money by protecting their Windows PCs from viruses. I’m still a bit undecided if I should just shrug it off as “OK”, or to be upset about. I’m leaning towards the former.