I've been an Avast user for a number of years. I've been happy with it's performance, though not at all happy with their policy of 'bumping-up' the price after the 'introductory' year. Today's complaint is different: pop-up messages warning that hackers could take control of my webcam. As an example, when you click on the provided link, the program switches on my webcam, with a message saying "This is what hackers can see". Of course, nowhere does it mention that the program is actually supposed to prevent any unauthorised access to my computer. Cheap trick: this does NOT prove that my computer is easily hacked! Also, the repeated warnings popping-up in the corner of the screen, warning of various other 'problems'. These quickly become tiresome: why not just send me an occasional email, extoling the virtues of 'upgrading' to the full version.
I find these things VERY intrusive: I'm very likely to change to another anti-virus program, one which just does its job!
