I started with the free version of Avast but upgraded to AIS mainly because I was doing online banking and shopping and wanted the added protection of the Safe Zone. It was getting close to renewal time for my 3 license AIS and they wanted more than double what I had originally paid when I upgraded from free. Then I read about v6 of Comodo and saw that they had added a feature called the Virtual Kiosk which is pretty much identical to the SafeZone except that you can use any browser you want in it. They also had greatly reduced and almost completely eliminated the alert popups that had annoyed me and made me leave Comodo in the past. CIS is now even more silent than AIS mainly because you don’t get any alerts for known safe things, not even firewall alerts, and the HIPS component is actually now disabled by default and not needed.

I am retired and my small Social Security check is my only income. Avast free doesn’t give me all I want and AIS is too expensive when I can get the same or possibly even better protection from Comodo and it’s completely free. I didn’t leave Avast for any other reason than the financial one. I will say however that I don’t like the direction that v8 is going with the addition of the software updater, browser cleaner, and other things that I find superfluous in a security product. The WebRep was bad enough and I never used it. I also moved away from AMS on my Android tablet because it did not support the Dolphin browser and the product I’m using now integrates with it nicely. I tried Comodo’s mobile product and didn’t like it at all.