What is going guys? I have never had as many issues with Avast as I have the last 9 months or so. Telling alerting me about windows explorer being malware, asking for passwords which were never required for the free edition. I've got Avast 2015 free version Running on an Acer AspireV3-772G-7872 with an Intel Core i7-4712MQ @ 2.30GHz/2.30GHz, Win 8.1 x64, on 1TB HDD w/16GB RAM.
All the malicious program updates from Microsoft are up to date.. I can't run scans (which make it useless to me.) I can't uninstall it, It asks for password for each. I've brought this up previously and one was sent from support, and it doesn't recognize it. It tells me to switch my default search engine to Bing or Yahoo, it changes. I'm a long time user, and until this started happening, I regularly recommended this product.
This is extremely frustrating. If it can't be resolved to my satisfaction this time, I'm going to run a full reset back to the factory defaults. I would hate to do that for 2 reasons, first in spite of these issues I believe in the product. Your software has protected my machines for years and I still trust the company. And second, it would mean hours of reinstallation for all the office and engineering apps.
Please advise