Hi smodeski,

You are free to install your av security solution as you seem fit and without Grime Fighter enabled. I would keep the shields operational as these are a vital part of your online protection. For bundling issues just opt-out. Well what you describe is a common way in which software is being spread nowadays and customers just have to pay more attention to what they agree to to download and what they enable and/or what they exclude. After mentioning this I feel the software is just sitting there comfortably in the task bar and hopefully does what it should do. As soon as you feel an urge to discuss an issue here to make your uneasiness go away, feel free to do. It may also help others. We are your avast!support forum and we like everybody to trust that fine avast av solution for the full 100%. I have been “inside probing” avast! suspicious and malicious website detection/analysis now for some 10 years and I can assure you that it only got better and better and in these respects, for instance with hide-me malcode detection, avast! is absolutely unique and top of the bill! So much for my own personal experience! Do you know how many liters coffee and cola it took for the avast team members before they could come up with such a unique protection (and also for me as a volunteer to check on it?) ;D

polonus