I look at the UI to set it up, and to check it every couple of days.
SO -
I need a UI that is useable. I'm back on 7.0.1500! The last version that had a navigable and useable interface where I could monitor separately the activity of each shield!!
And guess what - in rolling back, it finally fixed the "antispam toolbar" that misteriously appeared on my Outlook interface during a verison 8.x automatic update.
Auto updates of the PROGRAM are now disabled.
If the people at AVAST want people to continue to promote and use their program, they need to ditch the guy who programmed v9 UI (I think Win8 has about the same market penetration as XP now, a year later??) and understand that they just need maybe a "simple" and Advanced UI selection, giving the power users access like the v7 UI has.
Thanks for playing.
Oh and as to voting in the beta - I work 2 jobs and don't have time to beta test AV software... and I don't visit these forums unless and until Avast does something to aggravate me. So I didn't even know about the 'beta'. If I didn't now they were going to change the UI, how could I have voted?? Hmm?