New user, new poster here.
This is pathetic, all of you "evangelists" and "technicals". The OP asked a specific question, and got zero help. And to make matters worse, you insinuated he/she was wrong to want to do what they wanted to do. Or, even better, called people asking for your help liars, insinuating your program is perfect, doesn't need to be shut down, doesn't hog resources, doesn't block installs, doesn't interfere with things it's not supposed to. Instead of telling everyone how wrong they are, how about figuring out why your program is doing these things it's not supposed to do, and fix it?
It shouldn't matter what program they were using, why they wanted to do this, or how "dangerous" it was to disable it--YOU ALL KNEW THE ANSWER AND HELD OUT ON GIVING IT. It's insulting, ridiculous, and, if this is the sort of "help" on offer, seriously makes me consider uninstalling the program right now.
I am on a family computer, that's a P.O.S. I installed Avast to try to clean it up, as buying a new computer is not something everyone can do at a whim. But Avast was using over 85% of my CPU, on idle. I had to kill the bastard. Considering I had no AV running at all for years, stopping it now is not going to cause world war 3--but even using the "disable defence" I had to play whack-a-mole in the Task manager to get the bugger to finally die.
Here's a tip, "evangelists"--if I install an anti-virus program, I expect certain things, namely, that it play nicely. Not allowing users to shut it down EVEN WHEN THEY WANT TO is not playing nicely, it's rather rude. Then, when a poster comes here asking for help, you do nothing but belittle or ignore them, telling them they don't really need to, and reading the riot act. Shame on you. It's not your job to question why, just give the answer.
Now, I have Avast finally killed, so I can start backing up my crappy computer. You might have noticed, but the sky is not falling, WW3 is not broken out, and Jeebus is not returning, so obviously, killing Avast is not fatal. If you seriously want your program to become a contender in the AV space, you had better pull your collective heads out of your bums and start being humble, respectful, and helpful, and stop being arrogant, elitist jerks.
Oh, and install a damn "kill" function--I don't hit that red "X" button and expect to tickle a program, I want that bastard to die. And please, don't lecture me on why I shouldn't--it's not your job to tell potential customers what they shouldn't want to do, it's your job to tell them how to do it. Grow up, get off the horse, and start being helpful, or shut up and let others who are helpful do your job. But don't preach to everyone about how superior and perfect your obviously intrusive and buggy program is.
~senselocke, a severely irked new poster