Why I Left Avast Antivirus

I have left avast antivirus because it has given me a lot of troubles over the years and I am sad to say that I don't see myself going back for a long time. While the program has a lot of features it has constantly given me some sort of error or something was broken, and I am kind of sick of it. So while I do recommend the program I have to say that I am going to stop using the program. But that does not mean I am going to some half baked crappy software so I have found another program that I wont announce until tomorrow.

Why I Left

This program has given me a lot of troubles whether it was the network shield not working to having failed updates and having to reinstall. My time with avast has been long and I will still give them credit but they don't seem like they are for me anymore.

1. Avast web rep this little tool used to go inside of my web browsers and provide me website protection but have avast 8 was released it stopped working and kept crashing Google Chrome.

2. Avast Clean Up tool was a nice idea however this was a very poor uninstaller because i cold still find left over files from bad uninstallers and this tool did not seem to help in anyway. Not to mention their ratings for the toolbars made no sense they gave the Mcafee Site advisor a bad name because they recommended it to be uninstalled and this was wrong because it is a very trusted toolbar. BUT WHAT MAKES IT WORSE IS there seems to be no way to vote on the toolbars like it was automatically determined by some program.

3. The BSOD of avast 7. This was caused from their network shield conflicting in Windows 8 and caused a blue screen of death,

4. avast 8 software updater and the constant update of Mozzila thunderbird. Every time I went to the updater I caught it trying to update Mozzila thunderbird, and it would not work saying I needed to do it manually.

5. Avast 8 broken update package. When this happened I knew I was going to leave the program because I had enough with the issues. 

Why I Still Like It

The program has amazing detection, and the customization of this program is something that we all have to admire. The features that are included in this program make it a greater convenience then many other programs however I feel that it was getting to cluttered, and it was going no where. With their protection modules because I never saw any major updates headed to them and their updates don't seem to be released often. They release a couple after a major update such as 8 and then they come back with the next version 4 more big updates and nothing.

It has android support, this is the only antivirus program that I will ever use for my android phone because it is very secure and they are adding a lot more features that make it milestones better than any other antivirus program for the android device. They had a large update today where they added a file system shield and more to the protection and I am thinking this is amazing because it is.

Great community, the community that Avast has developed is full of very nice and helpful people that are hard to come by on many other products. The people on the forums want to be there they like helping people and that is something that a lot of companies don't seem to worry or care about now a days.