Well, you see when you calm down, everything is possible... most important, it's possible to establish healthy and polite conversation in the first place...
I still haven't seen a good explanation why it was trashed.
I wouldn't call it trashed... it's just no one likes to see some review that's not made at least 70% accurate... I'll just say something about this, taken out of his review:
Cons
Somewhat odd user interface compared to others
System resource hog
Slow scanning
2 items appear in tray after installSomewhat odd ? I wouldn't call it odd. Maybe it's different, but for sure it's not odd. If they made avast! exactly same looking as BitDefender or any other antivirus GUI look like, I'm sure hundreds would bash avast! because of copyrights on GUI style...
I will speak for myself... I spent a lot of my spare time (a lot !) designing skins for avast! No, I am not primary avast! skin designer, that's Martin Novak's job, but I am happy that Alwil team and avast! users accepted me as first additional skin designer for avast! I am sure Martin spent same amount of time doing his job on skins... it's not easy, believe me... best of all, many users still doesn't like skinning feature, and they want their avast! to run in plain mode... I have no problems with that. I respect everybody ! That's why Alwil gave us NO-Skinning option with new program build. So, everyone should be happy, everyone is able to configure their antivirus the way they like. Isn't that something ? So, let's finalize this... GUI is not odd, it's just different and Alwil gave us great oportunity to choose in between all those skins or no skins at all if you prefer...
Resource hog ? Second, avast! is not resource hog at all. It's natural that is uses some amount of system resources, it's normal... if we want to be protected well, program has to run all those functions, therefore it needs system resources... Has he ever tried running Norton on his machine ? Now, that's a system resources hog. But, I'll leave it for Norton forums...
Slow scanning ? Wel,, maybe it is, but at least I can make it run in background while I'm doing somethig else... no biggie...
Two items appear in system tray after install ? Of course they appear, because that way new users will learn easier about VRDB generator. Also, there is very obvious function to hide or merge that second (additional) icon with main avast! blue spinning ball... it spins only when avast! is checking some files or your system...
Cheers !