exitexit didn't we have this same rant over a year ago
Justified critique isn't ranting. But yeah, I'd forgotten about that. Maybe the popups stopped or I uninstalled it, cant remember now. I had a good point though.
Ad's in the free version are to be expected as it's the only way avast can advertise there paid solutions so if you don't want any ad's whatsoever then the paid version is your best bet.
your choice what you want to use but I cant see avast doing away with the odd advertisement popup for their paid versions, they have to make money you know otherwise there wont even be an option to use a free version.
There is a fine line between having lots of upsell ads in the software UI, and taking the right to act like an intrusive adware with popups. I have no problem with ads in general, in fact marketing is a part of my education (5 yr business at uni), but where do you draw the line between being okay and being too intrusive? Marketers would project ads on the moons surface if they were allowed (Coke) and in your dreams if they could, so apparently they cannot draw the line themselves. I have trouble accepting (non-webpage) popups in my computer environment, they catch the eye - especially considering the only popups in that corner is either virus warnings or IM-messages - and they are repetative. I have already taken the decision not to upgrade. Several times. Nagging is a dealbreaker. If not enough people buy their softwares/services to support the free software, maybe they need to change their product model. But it's unlikely that the spam is motivated by that, rather then an unmitigated hunger for more profit on our expense. That is their right, and it's our right to chose another competitor if they do. And that is what I'm suggesting, even taking the time (due to many years of loyalty) to tell them why I'm about to chose another software.
As the link Pondus has supplied you explains Defender is way behind on protection levels,
I read it, even if it doesn't say WD is "way" behind other anti virus softwares it does say protection might be better on a 3:rd party software. I interpret it as WD to be a good, sufficient, defense but without the edge. So maybe AVG or some other 3:rd party AV-software is a better substitute for avast AV then WD if you want that edge, since avast apparently intends to keep the popups.
And avast works perfectly fine here on Win8 by the way
Yeah, I saw a post about that after I'd posted my post. Win 8.1 warned me that avast wasn't compatible when I installed it though (maybe a week ago, latest version) but it, and therefore I, might be wrong.