Just letting you all know my experence with Avast. i have used there free products for 5 years or so, and paid for 3. Now on the 3, I paid for 2 licenses used one. renewed at 6 months with new PC b/c they wont let me use 2nd license. but seemed like they were doing ok so i continued to use it. added some extras from them as they said I “needed” them, help no help idk.
So after all this i get a letter from my ipo saying have virus and i should look into it. so i try avast, and they see nothing, so i download ipo FREE protection and search…finds it everytime, but says been embedded cant be quarantined. So ipo says delete fully and reinstall…
So fyi $100’s of dollars a year for protection thats less effective then the free ipo, and I dont have to go through their adds after every scan. They have subpar programs at high prices, they only push for more money and offer less protection.
So fyi $100's of dollars a year for protection thats less effective then the free ipo......
And you draw that conclusion from one detection?
No security program have 100% detection or zero false positives
So after all this i get a letter from my ipo saying have virus and i should look into it. so i try avast, and they see nothing, so i download ipo FREE protection and search...finds it everytime
What was detected?
Have you turned on avast PUP detection? (default off)
Have you also considered that detection from that other program can be a false positive?
and I dont have to go through their adds after every scan.