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Avast detection has steadily declined over the past months and now at 90% is rock-bottom as far as I am concerned.
Whilst detection has decreased it has increased with an increase in annoyances from adverts in the paid / professional product, pushing other products, pushing terrible interfaces past v7.
Avast is being used as a cash cow for its new owners and it seems clear that the direction is style over real substance. If these tests do not cause Avast senior management to massively invest in improving their detection rates as opposed to yet more fluff and chasing revenues, then the great Avast will start to collapse as users leave it for superior products.
We need evidence of action and a senior management statement which recognises that there is a problem rather than pretending all is OK. Who is going to push this up the corporate ladder to ensure it gets done? I’ve worked more than 2 decades in large corporations and can see that they are full of scared folk and cowards who just sing the company song each day - who will prove me wrong and be the brave Avast employee to represent the customers interests over the investor interests?!