I’ve been trying Avast, vetting it to replace AVG Free which in version 8 has taken a turn for the crapware, and I haven’t been too unhappy with it. However I elected not to register it when I downloaded and now it’s decided it will expire soon, so I should buy the paid version or at least register it. It pops up a little box from the tray which can’t be closed, and if you click on it, opens a window with no close/minimize/restore buttons with links to purchase or register. So if you want to close it, you can’t because there’s no button to do so in the window, no buttons on the title bar, and you can’t right click on the toolbar button and close it. So I try to open Task Manager to close it like that, but nothing happens. I try to run taskmgr (the Task Manager exe) from the run box, and it can’t find it!!!!! This sucky “program” has actually renamed a standard Windows program so that I can’t shut it down if I choose to do so! They call this an “anti” virus? Sounds more like the behavior of a virus to me. I don’t care if it’s the best anti-virus program on the face of the earth, I’ll not have software that intentionally tries to thwart me.
Check out PC Tools Spyware Doctor & AntiVirus. My copy cost $29 for a 3 seat license. It offers very fast screening and got rid of this pirate virus that attaches itself to every exe files. AVG had problems with the 1500 + copies of the virus!
I never surf with that laptop. A company does a small web based analysis program I use. Well the morons let the virus get on their sever and I got it. I pay $500 for them to give me a virus!
Anyway, AVG had problems getting rid of 1500 copies of the virus - it must morph. Avast was slightly better but it really did not get it.
PC Tools screened and zapped it in 56 minutes! No muss no fuss. I wasted 3 days trying to solve the problem and PC Tools took care of it iun 56 minutes.
Norton took a day and a half to screen the hard drive then wanted $50 bucks to renew!