nag nag nag

[deathboy]

Hmmm, nagging me every day to upgrade to the new AVG 9.0?

What a great reminder!^*

... to replace AVG with Avast.

^* That, and your convenient tendency to believe that cracks and patches no other AV thinks are viruses are lethal threats. Ta-ta, you fucking nuisance.

Comments

[drcuriosity]

I just replaced it with the free AVG 9 when the nag came up. Only to find that it switched me out of any full-screen app every half an hour or so until I disabled its "game mode".

So, Avast you say? :-)

[bishopjoey.livejournal.com]

Avast is ace - very non-intrusive and very effective. And free for home use.

AVG sounds like a friggin' nightmare.

[mikki-g.livejournal.com]

Using Avira at the moment. Seems fairly good. And a smaller memory footprint than AVG.

[arcsine.livejournal.com]

MSE is pretty good, too. Very small footprint, generally uninvasive.

[hughe.livejournal.com]

good luck uninstalling avg :)

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a shame really. I've been using AVG on my workstation and my mum's workstation for yeaaarrrrs. They really seem to have shot themselves in the foot with the spamming.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

I still recommend it to the sort of person who *needs* nagging to stay up to date, but I prefer software that at least has a mode for "I know what I'm doing, fuck off and leave me to it".

[welcometopablos.livejournal.com]

Avast is, quite literally, the tits.

[hexadb.livejournal.com]

Disable the sounds on Avast! though because otherwise an annoying American voice says "Antivirus updated" all the time.

[markeris.livejournal.com]

I have been woken in the middle of the night by a four minute warning klaxon courtesy of Avast. Whilst I appreciate knowing that something dodgy had arrived I decided that I could live with finding this out in the morning and couldn`t find the turn off sound button fast enough.