We agree on this (note, I’m just saying against avast: I’m not a fanboy like I was called today in other forum). Only the lack of Standard Shield heuristics could be workaround by the Behavior blocker (in minor extension of course) and could bring false positives (like I saw in other free antivirus). Anyway, just my opinion.
avast need to be improved on this:

[]However i still miss quick access to Chest.
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]The only problematic part that i have encountered is exclude option for Standard Shield which doesn’t offer browse like exclusion sistem, but you have to type entire file or directory path by yourself.
[]Infected file is automatically placed inside Chest,but this setting might not be too logic for some users. I would remove a bit complicated Silent mode settings and replace them with simple checkmark (if checked it would send the file to Chest
without standard virus detected warning).
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]I also noticed that in process of updating i get the feeling that avast! update module is running at High priority and mouse cursor changes into busy. Not a real problem, but might be a bit annoying to some of us.
[*]Lack of some simple settings (like stop spinning “a” ball)