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Random pop-ups that slither into view at the worst possible time trying to scare and manipulate me into buying shit I don't need? I'm a fan of irony but security software isn't usually my favourite venue.
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You got my attention anyway, I gotta reboot sometime this century, and you've been protecting my PC all this time, go ahead, sing about what's new.
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Offering me a discount on the premium version after I update the program, OK sure. This is serious business, and to get the basic level of protection for free, yeah I do expect a hoop or two to jump through at bare minimum. Never mind Microsoft up-ending the primary OS every ~6 months or whatever. :P) Smart people, working 24/7 looking after several hundred million nodes doesn't come cheap.
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This all means security software these days is a lot more complex. The spectrum of threats has exploded along with the amount and value of data each of us has, the connectivity of all this stuff, and the number of "I'm not a computer person" people out there. It's true that most people need something like "antivirus", but we've come a long way since the days of boot sector viruses and such. I find myself on Linux 90 - 95% of the time these days - what can I say, I got bored of PUBG and don't use Adobe :P Like you say though, it seems to be the general trajectory of the AV market, and to a certain extent the wider computing industry. Golden opportunity to shift some product and actually educate people with all the recent media focus on Facebook, Cambridge Analytica etc - but these guys are still peddling fear and lies. It's a shame because the core technology and AV research of Avast I believe to be pretty good but whichever sales droid came up with this cynical fearmongering bullshit should be black bin bagged, and while we're at it the UI guys should fuck off back to Fisher Price too. Isn't there one where it shows your webcam too? The content of those ads have been quite scummy for a while now, I've also had the "anyone can see what you do online!!11" to which my immediate reaction was 1) can they fuck, and 2) if I wanted a VPN to trust all my internet traffic to, I sure wouldn't touch any company that relies on deceptive marketing. (and +10 inet points for putting together a decent post about it rather than just smashing your keyboard) In your shoes though - totally justified reaction. Thankfully I'm not into live streaming and their Geo-IP wasn't as good as they wanted it to be. I encourage everybody to do the same, just get away from this mess of a market, there isn't any reliable AV left and we can't let them get away with doing things like this anymore. Right now I'm going to go minimal, with periodic Malwarebytes scans and no traditional AV. I'm uninstalling Avast and leaving this here so hopefully more people can see it and come to their senses. Now I am stressed out and I feel paranoid.
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Avast is not capable of protecting my privacy, in fact it has done the exact opposite and I was fine until this happened. Now there are several strangers who know where I live and some of them are no doubt capable of narrowing it down further if they want. Well Avast decided to do a popup that said "Your location is exposed!" with a big fat picture of my IP geolocation on Google maps, and the name of my city. I was livestreaming my desktop and I had a lot of strangers watching me, they are a critical audience and none of them know anything about me because privacy is a huge concern for me. And it's remained a major annoyance until today, when it actually caused me a real problem all by itself.
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With that being said I've always been annoyed at how Avast treats me, with popups telling me objectively wrong things like "Anyone can see what you do online!" to scare me into buying the full version. I switched from AVG when their reliability went down the drain. I'm a comp sci student and I choose to use Avast because historically it's been the lesser of evils when it comes to free antivirus programs.