What is the meaning of Updates expiration? (See Avast About topic)
The user won´t be able to update after this time?
Will the application be a shareware after that?
The user won´t be able to update after this time?Yes, until the time he registers again and inserts the new license key into avast!.
Will the application be a shareware after that?No, avast! will work, but can´t be updated.
Ok, I suppose that newer versions would be free too and the features will not be changed. Several applications change their features after a small free-period. Some examples? MailWasher, ZoneAlarm, AVG (See forum http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=663).
The user is picked in a trap: use the program, like it and then it becomes Shareware…
By now, no other antivirus is so good as avast. I hope it wil be free in the future 8).
There are really NO plans to change our avast! HOME policy in the future. The annual re-registration is just for us - to know (at least approximately) how many users we have and if they still use avast! 
Thanks, avast!
Zone Alarm Free is always free! >:(
Have you used ZA since earlier versions? The free new ones lost some features comparing to the the earliers… Ok, I agree, ZA is still free for home users but with less features… I hope avast won´t loose its…