It is now a bloated piece of software that takes complete control of the computer it is install on and hogs all of the memory resources at the most inappropriate of times. AVG was great at catching most malware and email attachments and overall was a decent product. The user had complete control over when the new virus definitions were downloaded and updated. I first tried AVG in the early 2000s and it was a great product. Perhaps that is why they are offering this free license. It will take some effort from AVG/Avast to earn back my trust, and the trust of many other former customers. However, I have lost trust in the company, so I uninstalled their product recently. Overall, this AV tool seems good enough for someone with a fairly modern computer (which can handle the load). You certainly need to get regular updates, but sometimes it is nice to just disable it, and do the updates manually when you can spare the system resources. Something I do appreciate is that it allows the user to disable automatic updates.

It also tried to push its browser addon on you, which was (at least until recently) farming user activity behavior and selling it. The firewall is not useful to me, since it gives very few configuration options to the user. However, as others have noted, it can be a resource hog. This shows questionable ethics.Īs far as user experience, this seems like a “ok” tool. They shut it down only after it was discovered independently and public outcry required it. AVG/Avast recently got in hot water for selling user data to advertisers through the company they bought, Jumpshot.

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