My main concerns are Zen launcher thing which is annoying and my second concern is that avast! will be getting this garbage as well. I can’t stand this garbage with AVIRA and I’ll never ever use it because of it. AVG was also annoying, but if you used FileHippo stand alone installer, you could just use the AVG Antivirus. avast! was cool the entire time because it never had this crap. But I fear it’ll get it now as well…
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This new AVG merged with avast! is nice. Apart from Zen garbage which I can’t stand it AT ALL, avast! has done more to AVG GUI than they have in last few years. In fact, (again, apart from Zen part) I actually consider new AVG’s interface superior to avast!'s new GUI. avast!'s felt like a rough draft where AVG’s feels like a proper polished GUI which feels familiar because of avast! components and arrangement, but it still has AVG’s signature feel. It’s weird actually. And I’m sticking with AVG free for now. Not kidding, I like it more than avast! GUI.
But for the love of god, give users option to install new AVG without Zen launcher component. Or at least default to it, but allow users to remove it afterwards.
Never used AVG Products, but I suppose I could setup at least one machine for testing it on, despite that is also my Avast test machine lol, so will have to pick a product to test, and stick with it, Can’t do Virtual machine on that system, as no space, and no space on main Desktop either for that. So will see what to do regarding testing in coming days
I already managed to break this stupid Zen component.
The “Free Antivirus” has changed to “Internet Security” and now I can’t access ANY of the antivirus controls or settings. WHAT!? All I did was change the device icon from laptop to desktop. And now it’s broken. :o
I abandoned AVG almost 13 years ago for avast and have never looked back. It would actually feel really weird trying it.
My biggest problem is a system to test it on, No way it is going on this XP Pro system my most used system. It isn’t going on my new Win10 laptop (under two weeks old), possibly because I still hate win10, more so now I have it. This would leave my win7 netbook, but that is so under powered only 10.1", 1024X600 screen, 2GB DDR3 RAM, Intel Atom N255 (1.5GHz dual core) CPU.
Yeah my little atom PC is very unpowered, barely can open the Avast new GUI, not sure if it will be any better with AVG, but I guess worth a shot, might work on that tomorrow though. Windows 10 Machine staying with Avast, XP Laptop dead, memory sticks or hard drive died, so that leaves either 1 of the Windows 10 Systems, or the Little Atom revo Desktop lol
Specs of Atom machine
1.6ghz Single Core Intel Atom
1.5gb of ram
160gb hard drive 5400RPM
Just installed it on my laptop and I love it’s UI much more than Avast’s in latest Beta but I hate Zen garbage too. Why do I need to run Zen to get access to antivirus part?
in a way i kind of agree why not send out notifications to avg users that they will all be merged over to avast and then have one universal product. i have seen many companies try to run with the multiple branding thing in all different fields not just av’s and usually either one fails or both tend to suffer. i would love to see a brand new product that takes each of the best of both and make one ultimate av.
and yes please no launchers or anything avira did that and everyone i know of hates it.
i will be testing both though and will until maybe they do get merged together. although i have never been an avg person really.
Well, silly. Despite what you’re saying, the AVG user base is still very strong (especially in English speaking countries) and we see no point in forcing people to move to Avast. It’s like if Coca-Cola bought Pepsi and decided to migrate all Pepsi customers to Coke – doable, but not necessarily wise. There’s a lot of nuance and personal biases that make this risky.
Long term, we may end up with one brand only but it’s definitely not something we think can be done quickly. The current view is that 1-2 years would be a minimum, assuming everything went smoothly.
Super, happy to hear that. I think the team has done a very good job with the new AVG GUI (especially given the short time frame), although I personally still prefer the new Avast Nitro UI (especially with the latest changes that you haven’t seen yet). They are both nice.
But, frankly, UI is just the wrapping and I’m sure you will agree that what really matters is what’s inside. And that’s where things start to get really interesting. Now, it’s a bit awkward to talk about it just now as some of the key features are still missing from the engine (such as the AVG code emulator, which, in my view, is a real gold nugget) but in some 4-6 weeks from today, we should have everything integrated. We’re pulling all the stops and integrating the tech as fast as we can now…
Well… Zen has been an integral part of AVG for a few years now, and is staying. We plan to integrate it to the main AV UI, but that will come later – as, again, we feel we need to focus on the engine first.
I think that’s a bug and the team will undoubtedly be interested in exact steps to reproduce it. Can you help?
Glad to hear you like new AVG UI. For Zen, please see above. We have some plans, but we will first release a version that addresses the internals and only then start making changes to Zen etc.
We think the dual-brand strategy is the right approach for now. There’s just too much risk in trying to migrate tens of millions of users from one brand to another. We will be revisiting this later.
Well I’m Sure once Testing is done for both versions, both will top notch protection no matter which version use, and much better than Default Windows Defender Security in Windows 8.1 and 10 in my opinion, tried Defender a bit when Anniversary update came out for Windows 10 out of curiousness, and took like 3 hours to do a full scan, soon as that was done reinstalled Avast lol
Will Get to Testing AVG on that upstairs Windows 7 Intel Atom PC, only machine can test really on these days, but am happy to test and report anything, and hopefully have all the little and major bugs found and top notch protection on all my systems in 2017
@Vlk
Certainly, I agree what’s under the hood is the most important. But interface is what gives users the first impression. If it’s professionally done and pleasing to the eye, people trust it more already, even if they don’t know anything about its detection rate. Human psychology 101.
Sure thing, I’m not questioning the importance of UX at all. Just that it feels to me that whenever we focus make changes to the UI, folks complain about lack of changes under the hood (my favorite question being “What’s happening with the HIPS?” :-)) and when we upgrade the internals, the discussion skews towards the UI. But, RejZoR, Asyn and other, I think we’re all on the same page after all – we want Avast to simply excel in all areas, from detection rates and core technology to kick-ass UI. I totally second that.
I’d agree that the AVG user base is very strong and you shouldn’t force the move to Avast. However, what I do find strange is why release a BETA of Avast a month ago and then jump to an AVG beta without any new BETA on Avast. If you will be developing two products, wouldn’t that be double the work? What will happen if the two products have different detection rates in tests. I don’t see a problem in taking time to merge but that should be taken with caution too.
I completely agree with that.
Will there be an option in AVG to do a custom install like Avast and remove components that a user doesn’t want?
