So to people who haven’t picked an AV yet or are using Avast but having a problem with it. At that same time i’ve been using other AV on another pc like Eset,AVG,Avira,Bitdefender and I can tell you that in the beginning this AV’s started off as heavy on the system but with every new version they release it has become lighter/not resource hungry with less problems occuring on the system while Avast has the reverse effect of becoming even more bloated and a headache with each new version. I have been a user of Avast since version 4.X and observed how bloated and buggy every new version that comes and it all specially started on version 8.X which I never totally sticked with then uninstalled it. Even heavier if you use the other bloat features like the new one NG. The sad thing about Avast is that every new version they release it becomes heavier on the system with its realtime plus its commonly used or enabled features like sandbox/webshield/firewall. Yet I know very little about AVG other than there’s never been any word from sites like Martin’s here, that it behaves nefariously. I don’t like it, but compared to repairing a malware attack, it seems easier at least, if not better. I’ve made this choice myself by trusting AVG on some computers I manage. “OK free software, you can monitor my email, files, browsing history … to protect me from the nasty stuff (and of course I assume a company nice enough to provide this free protection would never use that access for their own gain, would they?)” In theory anyone with anti-malware installed is already trusting that software to do a lot of privacy-invading work anyway. However in a post-post-Snowden world, could we start to see malware infestations on our computers that encrypt their own communications back to their C&C server, making it more difficult to debug them? In such a case, having an anti-malware product that’s able to intercept those comms might be useful.
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