As a computer professional I always recomended AVAST to everybody as something light and safe.
Today I don't know. I mean come on it is an antivirus not an OS. An antivirus does not need and it
should not update my software. It should not even check if is updated. That is a privacy issue.
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And antivirus should not try to correct what I'm typing in the browser because is not a spelling
software but an antivirus. Yes I understand that maybe If you keep the software updated you don't
take viruses and if you don't go to the wrong page you don't take viruses but don't do that and if
you do make sure I can see that and it can be easily disabled by anybody
As a computer professional, I would have thought checking what is actually checked would have been a good starting point.
It isn't checking every program on your system, but generally the internet facing ones and those more targeted for exploit. This after all is one of the major areas of infection exploitation of out of date applications
The problem is that most people don't keep their software up to date, those of us that do and are a little more tech savvy would have little/less use for this module and can easily uninstall it (or not installed by doing a custom install in the first place). But for your average user this is just the people this is targeted at, with 170+ million users default actions have to take them into account.
You have completely lost me on the second part of your post, with the AV checking your spelling.
Well let me explain to you.
First of all I'm not supposed to check every option with every update an antivirus is doing
Second I disabled them and after a secondary update I found them enabled again.
My father is blind but being an ex-programmer is using the computer quite extensively. He know the software is using by heart
If someone is moving a shortcut on his desktop that is a problem. Now if it doesn't know about this option in Avast and knowing
that Avast is an antivirus imagine his surprise if even his pdf reader is updated without his knowledge.
As for the second one Avast want to correct what I'm typing in my browser
No way
If you love them so much this option should be disabled by default not enabled. Imagine Avast is updating any software in that list
and because is a problem with that update Windows is crashing. What if one of this updates is interacting with other things I'm doing
on this computer. Again be a an antivirus the best if is posibile but don't mess with peoples computers.