I bought a laptop last year. Cheap one, about £400.
It worked great until the preinstalled antivirus 'free trial' ended and I was invited to buy it.
I clicked no (I prefer malwarbytes)
From then on the laptop was shite. Constantly freezing, programmes stopping, taking ages to boot etc.
I put it down to it being a cheap laptop
A few weeks ago I absolutely lost my shit with it and bought a new one - 16GB ram, much better overall
It was amazing. Opened things like lightening. Really great.
This morning I get notified of my 'one time offer' to buy anti virus subscription that is pre installed on the laptop.
I clicked no.
My brand new fast as hell laptop is now fucking frozen!!!
Can't get any response from the mouse touch thing, control alt del to bring up task manager is fucked.
I'm seriously starting to think there's something in these preinatalled antivirus things that are programmed to fuck up your computer if you click no!
Or am I being a nutjob?
YANBU - antivirus companies create issues in order to flog their product and have indeed fucked up yet another of your laptop's as punishment for not taking their subscription
YABU - go have a cup of tea and calm your tits, you whackadoodle