« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2019, 07:42:37 AM »
Users of Windows 10 are fortunate because they have the excellent built-in Windows Defender to revert to. The rest of us have this incredibly off-putting irritant of Avast's confusing attempt to sell its Premium paid-for product. Naive users are particularly at a disadvantage and can easily end up with a 'free' Premium trial period from which they must extricate themselves. The Avast model of customer relations could easily create the impression that Avast is the author of a scam, so poor an impression does it create.
It is bizarre that on the one hand Avast wants to create a good impression of itself by offering free software to home users while on the other hand it casually ruins that good impression by using 'dodgy' tactics to entice users into paying.

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