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Started by: priscus (inactive)

Have used Avast Free A/V for more than a decade. I had believed they were kosher.

Now I have begun to have doubts.

1 Nag-ware aspect has dramatically increased. Every couple of days now, suggests I should have some feature, and the consequent click through eventually take me to a paywall.

2 scare-ware: tries to sell me a lie concerning my passwords being vulnerable. I know that what it tells me is not true. Do not like the idea that such a program should even have access to my passwords!

3 Regularly asks me to click to update one of my drivers, telling me a newer version is available. After clicking through numerous pages, eventually I learn there is NOT!

4 And just, Malwarebytes did a scan, not prompted by me, and reported a threat: adware. Follow up revealed it to be in a download from Avast, which had not been initiated by myself.

Anyone else been experiencing any difficulties with Avast?

Time for a change maybe. Recommendations?

Started: 30th Sep 2018 at 13:28

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

ps I know in the past people have found malware actually being distributed by the AV they have installed. (even the paid for variants)

So problem is not limited to Avast.

Replied: 30th Sep 2018 at 13:34

Posted by: whups (13125) 

have you checked to see if your license has run out ? .

Replied: 1st Oct 2018 at 14:04

Posted by: sonlyme (3350)

I changed from AVG for that reason.I'm using bitdefender now and had no problems with it.

Replied: 1st Oct 2018 at 20:34

 

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