Avast, you are going to have to stop advertising so darn much. I choose Avast over AVG, simply because it don’t bog medium/low end machines down like AVG does, and I install Avast on every machine I tune up. Lately, I’ve been hearing from a few of my customers “We had to uninstall Avast because it wouldn’t stop popping up constantly, trying to sell us something. We had to put AVG back on the computer. Why is my machine so much slower now?”
Personally, I agree with them. I have a machine out in the shop as we speak that has popped up twice in the last hour, advertising Valentine’s Day special. Stop it, you’re ruining a great antivirus by making it act more like malware.
Snip> “We had to put AVG back on the computer. Why is my machine so much slower now?”
Hard to answer that one as this is not the AVG forum.
Whenever installing another Anti virus it’s curcial to use vender removal tool so as to not leave remnants which can corrupt installations and functioning of new AV.
Constantly being 3-5 times per day, always trying to get me to upgrade that computer to the internet security suite and telling me it’s on sale. I don’t see the popups that tell me it’s updating anymore.
schmidthouse, I think you missed the point. I’m not complaining about AVG, nor asking support for it. I’m complaining that people are uninstalling Avast and switching to AVG because Avast pops up more often than the adware I’m paid to remove from their computers.
And you rarely will see the definition update popup anymore because they have said the definition numbers basically don’t mean anything so they fill the space (the popup) with ads, which for a free product that is about as unobtrusive as they can be and still generate funds. I’ll be the first to say I hate ads, but if that’s the worst it gets then some leeway is allowed.
3-5 times per day… Well sometimes they do have more than 2 definitions updates a day (very rare), but people (especially customers trying to get something or irritated) exaggerate to the worst scenario.
Bottom line this subject has been complained about previously. There have been worse complaints about other things and they haven’t budged on those so I really wouldn’t expect much to come from this thread over a couple of popups.
So do you choose AVG (a bloated resource hog) over Avast because of a couple of popups? Your call…
Updates pop-ups are not shown anymore since version 2015.
Other pop-ups can be disable in the paid versions, some even in the free version.
As they say “you get what you pay for”.
In the past week I haven’t seen any pop-up for a Valentines special on a system where I have the free version installed.
Besides, avast is a commercial company.
They have bills to pay.
It is only logical they show a add now and then in order to try people to pay for one of their products.