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Is "Avast free" .... free ?

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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    dosh37 wrote: »
    My experience with Avast is that it is ok(-ish), but it seems to consume an awfull lot of processing resource from your PC. So much that it sometimes seems worse than a virus!

    Yep -- that's why, in the end, it had to go.
    GunJack wrote: »
    this can be reduced by not using all the !!!!py added tools, all you really need is the 3 main shields and disable or custom install without all the "added value" extras ;)

    Absolutely. It used to be fine with just these essentials installed, but performance on machines with Avast seemed to be dropping in the past 6 months or so. Web browsing became intolerable, with page load times getting tedious. (And yes, I really did only have the shields enabled.)
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