GrimeFighter

[Lisandro]

This program will always be for common users and won't give much information for the ones who can't understand/manage them.
But, right now, for the testers, it will be difficult to just "test" without further info. My personal opinion.

[GTX66]

And that's exactly how it (the GF connector) is going to be starting with the next beta refresh...

OK, how do I turn this off? in the latest RC Nevermind

[DavidR]

And that's exactly how it (the GF connector) is going to be starting with the next beta refresh...

OK, how do I turn this off? in the latest RC Nevermind

For those wondering as you didn't say.

Do a custom install and the GrimeFighter option is able to be de-selected as with other avast features/functions.

[thug4real]

Yep indeed is nice to see this as an optional features like it should be 

[HDW38]

The problem was, that everbody, who downloaded and installed '9.0.2009' early ( e.g. on 20131202) had no chance NOT to choose the installing of GF.
If anybody of those activated GF (like I did) had trouble.
After 3 hours of waiting and only 3 window changes with comments like 'Downloading image ...' my machine was like 'Antarctica', deeply frozen!

All that happened before yesterday. Somebody made some changes, so you can ...

- start GF and it started 'analizing' and shows you what's wrong,
- click on 'start cleaning' and you get this answer: 'GF starts after newstart'
- stop GF (after the new start!) by choosing 'back to Windows'!!!

HDW38

[evita1]

Morning and Happy New Year!

My apologies if I'm not in the right place (first hit I got on Google).  I'm running Avast Internet Security (version 2014.9.0.2011) on 2 pcs.    Was Grimefighter released as part of the Suite update recently?  I haven't seen the Grimefighter option on my pc, yet my  husband did get it on his.  I have the same concerns as other stated.  While I like it shows what the analysis found in general, I too haven't found any way to see in detail what it plans to do. 

I would ask GF show the analysis in greater detail, backup the system beforehand and and allow me to control what gets done.  System hardening can cause problems if you don't know what you're doing and I'm not comfortable giving software a blank check to do what it wants on such a wide scale without any control on my part. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[DavidR]

I believe that GrimeFighter is currently a stand alone paid service, I don't know if it will be an option in the premier suite in the future.

He may well see GrimeFighter mentioned in his installation, but that is the control interface and not the program as such. The GrimeFighter was incorporated into the initial avast 2014 9.0 beta version and that caused a stink with those that didn't want it. But essentially that was testing the interface in that initial 9.0 beta and not the later avast 9.0 installations

Many people have mentioned they would want more details (as you have found) rather than just raw numbers before they would allow it to remove the grime.

[evita1]

Thank you for the information.   

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

[Jannto]

Tried GrimeFighter four times now. All goes fine until crash after 30-40 minutes of "not worrying and relaxing". Any log files I can extract for you to check what is going wrong?

[RejZoR]

I wonder if it's really that thorough and secure if it's doing the stuff for 40+ minutes...

[REDACTED]

That's pity. It is such a nice product. We wouldn't acquire the company if we thought it was crap would we... 

   

Still a lemon 🍋 is still a 🍋. This is probably the worst product I have ever put on any computer I have ever owned. What makes it worse in my eyes is that it even has the avast name on it. I have been happy with the anti-virus engine. This product however seems to have been coded by the antichrist. Hopefully I can get my computer back working again after this product has failed it miserably. Definitely getting a refund on this garbage.

[REDACTED]

Yes I agree, I am very disappointed in what it did to my laptop. I would like to know how I get my money back that it said to pay for 1 year to upgrade to improve system. It didn't work it made every thing slower than what it was already. I would like to delete Avast from my computer but I want to make sure I get my money back first for the grimefighter Beta. It changed my settings and deleted the old ones now I can not get it to reset to the more compatible settings to my computer.

[Asyn]

Best, you post/ask here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=63.0

[REDACTED]

I downloaded then ran this today.  Only later did I realise I already had it.  I have been on the phone to customer services who say they cannot help and to go onto the website.  Nowhere can I find how to uninstall my latest version and get my subscription refunded.  Any ideas?