I am with pmstewartt and bootsy, agreeing with most of what they said.
I use Avast since years and if somebody asked me, which AV to use I suggested Avast.
But since the last updates, I am very unhappy.
Here in Germany we are not used to have inline ads all the time, pushing you to buy things you don't want at all.
I don't want to get notified that there are some MB that can be cleaned away, or some programs could be erased because they are slow.
I am a user from beginning on, more than 25 years now and I had my share of fails.
I don't mind the Win8 look of the GUI, but please give us some switches and control back, so we can switch off the constant telling of which program could be updated, which space I could save and stuff like that.
That might be good advise for rookies, but frankly said "I don't give a rats ass" for those notifications, they just annoy me.
It used to be a good software, doing what it's supposed to do, but now?
I am a mature and responsible citizen, I don't need them to tell me what might be good for my computer.
One example:
lately I went online to do some Online-banking stuff and went into Safe-Zone. There I did my deeds and saved some CSV and PDF files for further usage.
After getting out of the Save-Zone, my files were gone... what a shock !!!
There was no notification at all, giving you ideas how to reach your files.
Only after digging around I found out that these files will be left in the Zone and you are not at all able to get them out once the Zone is configured automatically by Avast the first time. It didn't ask me than, if I want to have some save place where I can reach the files.
You can reach them only when you boot in Admin mode, dig into some directory structure and get your files from there.
What was that??
This is supposed to keep people to stay with Avast? No, not with me.
Next year when the paid period is done, I will switch to something better.
This is just an example, how the whole concept of this software has changed.
They are only looking for profits, more profits than they did selling the paid versions.
Well they can do, but not with me.