4 a.m., sleeping, my computer beeps twice and says “Threat detected.” Obviously, I’m not sleeping any more! By the time I get to the computer and turn on the screen, the bubble for avast is disappearing. So, I open the program and there is no mention of any threat? I looked. Nothing. I did notice something about registering… Perhaps it was not the best time to take action, but I was… a little irked. I uninstalled Avast.
Today, a few days later, my machine is slow, so I Ctrl+Alt+Del to find out what is slowing it down… AvastSvc.exe is the first on the list (using the most memory). It won’t shut down. There is no uninstall program and it isn’t on the remove program list. WTF guys? I’ll find a way to remove it, but damn.