Win XP Pro SP3 here, Avast 8.0.1497, and I have pretty much no nags or popups bothering me daily–Just every now and then, particularily during updates…

OTOH… Keeping up to date with the sheer number of viruses and other malware out there, among all the unsavory people who want nothing more than to access my files, data, et cetera, and/or use my computer as a drone to spam the hell out of the rest of the people on the internet or other nefarious activities… Isn’t exactly cheap and easy. It’s time consuming and costs a lot of money and other resources. Yet the people at Avast release their hard work with the option to obtain it all for free, except maybe some annoying popup ads…

I’d pay for Avast if I could afford it (unemployed right now :-(), but since I cannot, I’ll accept and deal with a few minor annoying popup ads. Seems to me that complaining about the ads is much like a starving and thirsty man in a desert complaining because the first oasis he finds doesn’t offer fine wine and caviar…

(OTOH, I would agree that popups every two minutes is too much, too… But I’ve never seen it get to that point…)

Cheers,
C.