I've used AVG for years because it stayed out of my face most of the time, and seemed to work just fine.
In more recent times, the fact that it seemed compelled to tell me every single time that it had just updated itself started to get a bit stale. Then, because it kept on being in my face like that, I noticed that according to AVG at least, virus writers don't work on the weekends, because there were no updates on the weekends. Or perhaps there could be another underlying message in that behaviour.
Yesterday AVG announced that it was about to stop working and I had to go download a new version within a certain time scale. Well yes, that's not unreasonable of them either, but when I got to the page it said I had to go to, I was left with the perception that the terms under which it was to be used had changed, and changed to the point where I am seriously wondering about giving something else a try.
Something a bit less slick and spun looking might sit alongside my growing conerns a little more comfortably. In short I was left wondering about their sincerity, since their new approach suggested to me that it might be a wiser move.
I'm not sure what I might try out next, only that I quite probably will. Of course I'll have to be able to have complete confidence in it, whatever it might turn out to be.
In more recent times, the fact that it seemed compelled to tell me every single time that it had just updated itself started to get a bit stale. Then, because it kept on being in my face like that, I noticed that according to AVG at least, virus writers don't work on the weekends, because there were no updates on the weekends. Or perhaps there could be another underlying message in that behaviour.
Yesterday AVG announced that it was about to stop working and I had to go download a new version within a certain time scale. Well yes, that's not unreasonable of them either, but when I got to the page it said I had to go to, I was left with the perception that the terms under which it was to be used had changed, and changed to the point where I am seriously wondering about giving something else a try.
Something a bit less slick and spun looking might sit alongside my growing conerns a little more comfortably. In short I was left wondering about their sincerity, since their new approach suggested to me that it might be a wiser move.
I'm not sure what I might try out next, only that I quite probably will. Of course I'll have to be able to have complete confidence in it, whatever it might turn out to be.