AVG Anti-Virus Gets A New Look - Comments Page 2

Having read the above comments i have to agree about both program's especially A V G and the constant push to up grade or get new apps that they have for sale ,,,Makes AVG appear pushy and second rate ..

Just echoing another comment: If they want to keep my subscription they'll stop pestering me with all of their additional features. They're a pain in the **tt!

Have used numerous paid or free anti-what-U-don't-want programs through too-many-years to count (even one before ever connecting online). They all had/have flaws. Most hogged system resources to the point of slowing the machines' response times to a crawl. False-positives, BSOD and the like, made it necessary at one point, to try a different solution every few months... all the ones mentioned in your article and the comments, certainly.

For the past few years, I too have found AVG Free to sip rather than suck down resources and it's been fairly tolerable in some of the negative areas, as well. There are plenty of settings for the user to customize, (it can take awhile to check all of them out). It's provided reliable, full-time protection for three of my machines. I also run some additional single-run scanners weekly on each computer, in case something slips through (but they usually come up clean.)

I used AVG a while back and when it started stopping my system dead and just became generally irritating I trashed it and went to AVAST. I recently gave that the boot and used Defender and presently Malwarebytes until now the free period is over. I guess it's time to try the new improved AVG again.

I have used Avast Premium with Malwarebytes Premium for years, no problems at all.

Advanced System Care stole their malware databases from Spybot Search and Destroy and form the later Malwarebytes-
I would not trust them not to sell sensitive information
No Idea where they got the rest of their hodgepodge of modules- developed entirely in house LMFAO
Using Avast Free and scan with MBAM and SBS&D and some others. Popups are what your pay for free- get over it.

I've run Avast Free for years. Running it in "silent/gaming mode" eliminates most popups.

Just want to comment at this point--

Been running free AVAST for 6-8 months; the popups don't bother me. Then, 'something' happened (I tend to try various 'things') --'It' suddenly downloaded, and installed Premium AVAST--and charged me! Rather upset, I decided to see what 'Premium' was like, before I complained.

Soon, AVAST began emailing me tips', like "Tip #1: Speed up your PC and keep it sharp all day". I tried what the tip suggested. By golly, it worked! I just didn't know what I had.

[This system was an old ShuttleX, bought used in 2008 - Win XY (sp3) -- stuffed with too many programs etc. Slowing down a lot over the years.]

AVAST Premium ran some tests -- i.e., found 17 drivers that needed updates. Too many similiar programs loaded, cleaned most using their SLEEP setting. Etc.

Pinterest loaded images lot faster. Videos, like TED Talks, run much smoother. Etc, etc..

Anyway, the system is way, way faster overall. So, I'm glad I tried it now.

Billms

For probably a dozen years, here in Middle Earth, I have constantly been using IObit's ASC-free (=AdvancedSystemCare) and its associated progs: Uninstaller, DriverUpdate, IObitMalwareFighter et alia.
ASC's "Clean&Optimize" has always given reliable help with decluttering and speeding-up my PCs and laptop: with a user-friendly menu that offers dozens of free options; and many "paid-for" extras clearly marked "Pro", to avoid wasting my time.
After umpteen years using AVG-free; I dropped it a year or so ago, when pop-ups seemed to multiply.
I have been using Avira recently; but I should have dumped it sooner, if I'd heard of a less annoying free alternative. Avira's pop-up prog itself has become a TOTAL BIT-HOG: its phantom two-line bi-tone textless mini-widow freezing my FireFox, or the whole PC, until a ?-Win7 pop-up arrives to offer an option to close t'darn thing.
So it's back to AVG-free for now; as it reportedly uses less RAM than any alternatives. And I'm sticking with the free version; as I don't want to pay, for extras I don't need, to use up even more of my precious RAM.
Meanwhile, can anyone make an intelligent prog (or app) to auto-click-shut unwanted repeated pop-ups. Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to devise such a thing: a pop-up to end all pop-up repeats! It could ask "Do you want this {Oohay} pop-up auto-shut if it tries to appear again?" I don't object to ads in freeware per se, just undue frequency. After all, if I didn't want to respond an hour ago, or yesterday; I'm very very very unlikely to want to respond now, either!
And now, back to My Precious....

I have used Avast for quite a few years and the popups over the last 12 months are now a big nuisance, Now I am thinking of changing as will many more, can Avast not see this or is it the plan in order to make people move to A.V.G?