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I am a new user to Avast and switched to it when my other brand subscription expired. I purchased the full deal and was initially happy until the browser cleanup tool kept nagging me to remove plugins from my browser and install the Yahoo or Bing search engines to replace Google. To get it to stop I figured I would let Avast do its thing and I would change it back. Well the result was the deletion of Firefox, Evernote, Quickbooks, Adobe Acrobat, Acronis True Image, AnyDVD, Neat, and Many many other programs. Avast deleted almost my entire Program Files (x86) folder! I was only able to recover after hours of trying where I finally located my Acronis recovery disk where I encountered problems since one of the increments was corrupt but if I did not have the backups I would be dead in the water now. Bottom line, Avast is MALWARE! I am sorry I even tried this sorry excuse for a program.