Why invest money in antivirus?

Quite a controversial topic. There are a lot of sources that say that free antivirus software is good enough and there is only a relative difference with regards to functionality and features. Nevertheless, a closer look is that these missing features and functionality have an effect on security as shown in a previous article of ComputerOpschonen on gratis virusscanner. The following blog comes in with an other angle on this issue. The angle of why in effect it is reasonable to pay for antivirus software. It takes the perspective of the developers in stead of the developers. You can read the article here: why buy antivirus software.