AVG FREE 2013 i hate you (other FREE AV recommendations)

RE: philtor, shankley, Foxeye.

I found them to be too intrusive, interrupting my full screen apps is annoying out of the box behaviour, not to mention the audio alerts and the constant nags for registration. So to me that's not nonsense, it's an irritation.

Then there's a load of push marketing during download and installation to get you to upgrade, and again for registration.

Avast have always asked to register, and I thought they were making progress when this became part of the program setup instead of having to go off to the web page. But for me, that's all too much and I've lost the will to strive on with it so they've lost me as a user.

AVG on the other hand hasn't said a peep since I installed it. From what the others have said in this thread I may go the MSE route as that's getting a lot of positive press in here.
 
I used to use AVG, but found it missed loads.
Switched to avira for a number of years, but the adverts and nagging and the fact it was a resource hog that would result in manic HDD use and CPU load saw it dumped for MSE.
 
You register once and that's it for one full year. I not once had a problem with games or other full screen apps, avast never updates when running games. Audio can be switched off in settings.

randal24 said:
RE: philtor, shankley, Foxeye.

I found them to be too intrusive, interrupting my full screen apps is annoying out of the box behaviour, not to mention the audio alerts and the constant nags for registration. So to me that's not nonsense, it's an irritation.

Then there's a load of push marketing during download and installation to get you to upgrade, and again for registration.

Avast have always asked to register, and I thought they were making progress when this became part of the program setup instead of having to go off to the web page. But for me, that's all too much and I've lost the will to strive on with it so they've lost me as a user.

AVG on the other hand hasn't said a peep since I installed it. From what the others have said in this thread I may go the MSE route as that's getting a lot of positive press in here.
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Or you can uninstall it and try something else.

I stuck with Avast for ages, but it's got progressively more intrusive and irritating for me so it had to go.

Horses for courses.
 
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