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I’m not giving up on them yet…but I also don’t believe 200M people have converted to Avast9 and only 10s or 100+ posters on this Forum are having issues that they should not. To me, it is not number of posts that trouble me…go look at AVG or any software Forums…tons of posts, tons of ticked people. What bothers me here is the types of recurring issues that are the same. An example, tons of posts on aswRvrt.sys during boot locks machine and you can’t even get to Safe mode. The blame goes out that Windows updates went wrong but don’t think personally it is coindence the last loaded driver is Avast. My guess is that as a more intrusive A/V version (Avast9 vs Avast8) that Avast9 is hanging systems on these updates and the Windows install is now corrupt…I have no proof of that only conjecture. Essexboy helps many with FRST to basically blow away Avast but many have to re-install their O/S…these type things scare me to death. I went thru the AVG8 to AVG9 change that almost mirrors this effort. It was a HUGE re-write and they thru in other software “tools”. They literally bricked thousands of PCs overnight and many folsk never could recover. Avast has missed that horrific bullet and I know the Avast Team is working hard on BETAs, etc…but I’m what I believe one of the many in wait-and-see mode.
Bottom line…IMHO…Avast8 still works great and why jump into the deep end of the pool when a little patience may prove to avoid a lot of pain.