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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #90 on: December 23, 2011, 01:35:34 PM »
No bob as i know what i am doing i would want to know the IYOGI department is working as i know some of their guys so just for sake of helping i asked them about their service provision and i have lodged a complain on the improper service provision.  :)

since they have been made aware of this issue they should take it seriously!

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #91 on: December 23, 2011, 02:39:05 PM »
No bob as i know what i am doing i would want to know the IYOGI department is working as i know some of their guys so just for sake of helping i asked them about their service provision and i have lodged a complain on the improper service provision.  :)

since they have been made aware of this issue they should take it seriously!
They where made aware of the issues way before you started on this forum. :)
Since you seem to have a personal relationship with iYogi, maybe your intervention
will do some good. For the sake of Avast customers who wind up with their sevice, I certainly hope so.  ;D
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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #92 on: December 24, 2011, 06:12:57 AM »
Since the same forum's username is used by more than one real person, and the permissions and member types are determined automatically, we will all have the pleasure of shearing all the info in ECC with them just in a few months from now. After awhile the same forum member(s) will get to be überuser. Isn't it great?  :P ;D

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #93 on: December 24, 2011, 07:20:20 AM »
 :o nice catch ady4um

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #94 on: December 24, 2011, 04:19:42 PM »
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"It ain't necessarily so."  ;D ;D
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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #95 on: December 24, 2011, 08:39:16 PM »
In have noticed a great deal of improvement in the recent posts from IYogi. They started off absolutely horribly but they are getting better. Would I ever use the service or recommend that anyone else does? NOPE.

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #96 on: January 23, 2012, 09:26:31 AM »
Yogi may be for real but I question their competence.  I'm due to pay for another year soon, but the program screwed up completely and so I went for support.  iYogi.  They did the usula remote takeover, predicted armageddom if I didn't take out a contract with them - spent almost an hour analyzing my computer but doing nothing except sell, sell, and pressure sell.  Okay, I wouldn't mind a service like theirs and said later when I went completely 64 bit.  But in the meantime I wanted my anti-virus (which I pay for!) operational.  In the meantime, I use MS free security, as Avast x'd out on the taskbar.
Then the situation changed.  From the live chat, I was duly despached to type-chat.  But told it would take some time.  By now iYogi's people (3 by now) had done nothing but doom talk and sell.  They could have, I feel, fixed the problem. 
But here's the BAD part.  I had to leave for a meeting (all that wasted time)and tried to go on line.  iYogi had completely screwed up my internet connection.  So I had to pay a tech to come and sort out whatever they'd wrecked while finding out what I should spend my money on. I feel Avast has a duty to those of us who pay to make the product work. If I were just using the free version, I'd not complain. But my advice? Don't let these people near your computer. They only made it worse.  I like avast - anyone know if they have an alternate way of dealing with problems - other than iYogi? This is BAD Karma, guys.

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #97 on: January 23, 2012, 09:50:10 AM »
I think it would be easier to deal with users here on forums by us, than leaving them all alone to the iYogi guys. No hard feelings but i'm still questioning their competence...
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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #98 on: January 23, 2012, 10:13:01 AM »
I think it would be easier to deal with users here on forums by us, than leaving them all alone to the iYogi guys. No hard feelings but i'm still questioning their competence...
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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #99 on: January 23, 2012, 02:43:16 PM »
I think it would be easier to deal with users here on forums by us, than leaving them all alone to the iYogi guys. No hard feelings but i'm still questioning their competence...
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Agreed, the forums should be the first port of call. As far as competence goes, I can't comment on user experience other than that shown in the forums. But what we have seen from the iyogi reps who have posted on the forums doesn't show a high degree of knowledge of avast products and you would thing that they would be the best that they have.

Then again we still haven't had it spelt out exactly what support an avast user is entitled to under the avast/iyogi support contract. I suspect it is very limited and as such shouldn't take a rocket scientist to provide that limited support, anything after that and they are going to try and sell you a support package.

Personally I'm more concerned with the business ethics of some of its employees and why it hasn't been stamped out management.

The practice of trawling the windows event viewer for what are essentially trivial errors to support the case for there being something wrong with their system and to strong arm the user into purchasing a service contract. This is bordering on the rogue/scamware applications that we hate so much.
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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #100 on: January 23, 2012, 02:47:40 PM »
@ozted forget about iYogi, do not renew your subscription, from what I've read and heard (just check their videos on YouTube)these guys have no competence whatsoever about anything. If you have an issue, just come to the forums.

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #101 on: January 23, 2012, 06:47:31 PM »
@logos, he has no subscription with iYogi. He has a paid version of avast.

BTW, I agree that the best known method to receive avast support is this forum with many avast users advicing (for free), and with the developers also participating (according to what they can).

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #102 on: January 23, 2012, 09:02:29 PM »
As I noted in another thread:

You can call IYogi and if you are not satisfied, tell them you are going to file a chargeback. This gets them moving quick because the payment gateway they use is Paypal and if there are enough complaints, Paypal will put a stop on their transactions if they exceed the allowed threshold of chargebacks.

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=security/chargeback_guide



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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #103 on: January 26, 2012, 01:20:42 AM »
I think it would be easier to deal with users here on forums by us, than leaving them all alone to the iYogi guys. No hard feelings but i'm still questioning their competence...
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I have been following this thread for a while and Yogi may be for real (a real group), but their competence is another matter.
I have dealt with a number of home users and retirees that have subscribed to IYOGI and have called us virtually in tears because of a host of problems after they have had iyogi support connect "assist" them.  The most laughable account was they wanted a extra fee to help resolve a "Virus" problem of, AV won't update, lockups and so on, which would take a lot of extra time according to the online tech, which he validated by opening the Event Viewer and indicating the red and yellow icons.  The short story is that the events weren't read, the problem being "can't read/write to HDD), Hard drive faulty, replace Hard Drive, clone, reboot and no errors. Surprise surprise.
I have seen several similar instances of true lack of competence by IYOGI that I could NEVER have faith in them.  I believe that the majority of their tech support staff sit behind a console and read a script and have no technical competence at all, it's all about extracting money and that's it. 

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Re: is IYOGI For real?
« Reply #104 on: January 26, 2012, 01:45:41 AM »
I think it would be easier to deal with users here on forums by us, than leaving them all alone to the iYogi guys. No hard feelings but i'm still questioning their competence...
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Agreed! After a bad experience with iyogi I found very competent help right here on this very forum.
At first I was hard headed but I learned. I have said this before many times...I would like to see avast
cut iyogi loose. They love to take your money if only to look at your "event viewer". Which generally has nothing to do with a users issue.  :)
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