I resent being called a fan boy simply because something works for me, although I am not an Avast Evangelists, but considering I have always been saying here that I never really had issues with Avast. It only goes to show that people who say these things are either disgruntled or they really do not know what they are saying. Read: Sour Grapers!!!
For one, my PCs, work with Avast 5. It performs very well. The only time I ever had problems with Avast was that when it was still bloated, which got fixed by 4.8.1368 and the update fiasco which turned almost everything into false positives, but that was still with Avast 4.8.
Now if I say I have never seen any problems with Avast 5.0 ever since having it, am I therefore a fan boy? I think not. It is basically with experience the same reason why I say it. When I read issues with Avast 5.0, specially with those using Windows 7 and Windows XP SP3, I cannot help but wonder, why am I not having the same problem? If there is really something wrong with Avast 5.0 then by all means all Windows XP SP3 PCs should experience the problem, same with Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Read again: All of us install stuff in the PC. This is where we all differ. I basically know how to take care of my PC and thus do know what I put into it. To say that one thing doesn't work in another machine simply because it is using Windows XP SP3, hey, look at your machine. When others with the same OS is not experiencing it, it simply means one thing: you have placed something in that machine that causes the program to behave like that. It would be worth it your time and Alwil to tell them what is in your PC instead of grumbling here and there and calling everyone not having the problem as fan boys or fan girls.
The mature way to go about this is to check which programs are in the machines that work well and check it with yours. Too bad, most of the people who say those that do not have problems are fan boys does not follow this attitude. It gives me the impression that they are sour grapers.
For those who think we who do not have problems with Avast as Fan boys: GROW UP!!!