How on earth do i get rid of the black and gray and orange 2d metro UI??
I uninstalled Avast to try to get rid of the “spam block toolbar” that Avast managed to install into my Outlook without my permission (other posts on this issue are months back in this forum) as I was instructed to do by avast support. Then I reinstalled from a fresh download and I got this HORRIBLE ugly interface. Cant find half of what I used to see here either. This is STUPID! Just like Win8 makes computer users feel stupid, Avast has followed suit?
I’m a paid customer - where can I get version 8?
metro is offensive to my mind, spirit and eyeballs. It’s an afront to computing. 1998 called and wants their UI back.
I uninstalled Avast to try to get rid of the "spam block toolbar" that Avast managed to install into my Outlook without my permission
- You could have read before installing
- You can ofcourse disable the mail shield
- You can ofcourse use another email client.
Then I reinstalled from a fresh download and I got this HORRIBLE ugly interface.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)
Cant find half of what I used to see here either.
Surprise, a lot of things have changed for the better. Some things have been "integrated" into others. Take a little time to browse through the new settings and learn about them.
Um, no. An UPDATE (automatic sort) did it to me - I have been running avast for 7 or 8 years now… disabling mail shield has no impact. and following support’s instructions to uninstall and re-install did not work.
Then I reinstalled from a fresh download and I got this HORRIBLE ugly interface.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I bet you mourn for your Nintendo64 games. because flat and plain and monochrome is what Metro is. It’s like taking a 1000 computer with dual video cards and giving you PONG with a touch screen.
Cant find half of what I used to see here either.
Surprise, a lot of things have changed for the better. Some things have been “integrated” into others. Take a little time to browse through the new settings and learn about them.
Integrated means COMBINED, and COMBINED means harder to have granular control and/or reporting over. Meh.
The protection level is the same.
The communication between modules are faster and more transparent for the user.
New GUI… Maybe you should have voted in the beta phase
I look at the UI to set it up, and to check it every couple of days.
SO -
I need a UI that is useable. I’m back on 7.0.1500! The last version that had a navigable and useable interface where I could monitor separately the activity of each shield!!
And guess what - in rolling back, it finally fixed the “antispam toolbar” that misteriously appeared on my Outlook interface during a verison 8.x automatic update.
Auto updates of the PROGRAM are now disabled.
If the people at AVAST want people to continue to promote and use their program, they need to ditch the guy who programmed v9 UI (I think Win8 has about the same market penetration as XP now, a year later??) and understand that they just need maybe a “simple” and Advanced UI selection, giving the power users access like the v7 UI has.
Thanks for playing.
Oh and as to voting in the beta - I work 2 jobs and don’t have time to beta test AV software… and I don’t visit these forums unless and until Avast does something to aggravate me. So I didn’t even know about the ‘beta’. If I didn’t now they were going to change the UI, how could I have voted?? Hmm?
We too… Most of us help the others for free. All of us receive avast! antivirus for free. And we’re all free to disagree with the GUI guy.
I love the new interface
I would like to see the folks at Avast publish some real world tests showing the “better protection”.
For all I could tell for the 3 days I had it, it was no faster - it was harder to see individual items and configuration options, though - because the gui sucks
Why would avast do so if there are a lot of independent organizations (like VB100) are already publishing tests?
You can also look at all the rewards that avast has received.
I’ve been recommending, and even reselling, avast for 7 years + now.
I know it’s a good product.
But if you take a Corvette, and you put a Yugo body on it, people gonna think it’s a Yugo…
You say VB100 published data? that compared Avast versions and their protection performance? do you have a link please?
Yeah, you don’t like the GUI. Point taken. Live with that or switch products. Normally, people set up the AV exactly once after install and have pretty much no reason to use the GUI after that.
A desktop widget (gadget if you mean) does not serve the purpose well. Those who frequently access the user interface to change settings to adapt to their certains needs, a friendly GUI makes a lot of difference. To have number of windows open to access frequently used features, is kind of annoying. For anyone complaining about this new interface, their concerns are valid as they didn’t face such annoyance in the earlier version. Now, there is no such problem for others because they just install and forget that there is security software running in the background and they don’t require much configurations. And suggesting them to revert back, does not really help, especially if they are paid customers. If avast doesn’t really care about it, then there is nothing one can do except to live with it or just change the security app. But, I think avast does care about users’ behavior i.e how exactly they use avast features and which one do they use frequently. I read about it somewhere in this forum when someone asked as to why avast sends data to google analytics everytime they click on somewhere inside the GUI.
how is that?.. if something is detected a warning pops up
avast have realtime protection as all AV have and monitors whats going on when the comp is on
You say VB100 published data? that compared Avast versions and their protection performance? [b]do you have a link please?[/b]
