"Buffalo" wrote in message
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"Drew" wrote in message ...

On 3/30/2014 10:05 AM, s|b wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:39:38 -0700, Drew wrote:

Just wondering what free antivirus people are running here. I have been
running Avast Free for years but it is really getting to be a pain with
it's constant program updates (not definition updates)

I don't know if you can call it "constant":

http://www.avast.com/release-history

but there are some improvements in several updates, so...

Personally I
think the older interface was better.

You act as if you daily open the UI. I just install it and then let it
run. I don't really care about the UI, so why should you?

Last, but not least, It's _free_ ! You get what you pay for...

Not arguing your point at all but since I am on this machine daily and it
tells me daily about updates with balloon notifications than that is what
I would call nagging. As for the interface well the older one did not have
things like "grimefighter" and "software updater" etc. Once again I say
that it was my fault for allowing it but.... I think it is the dumbing
down of programs that I dislike

The latest program update ends with 2016.
Go to the settings for Update and under the Programs update settings,
select 'manual'.
If you don't want to be bothered by those screen nags at all, 'one' way
is to just rt click on the taskbar icon and select 'Silent Gaming Mode'.
There are other ways, but this is a simple easy way. You have to do it
after every boot, but then it stays that way until the next boot.
I also disable Grimefighter and Software Updater.
I think the free Avast is excellent, overall. Just take the time to go
through all the options available in Avast.
I also don’t use the Web Shield or the Mail Shield. Using the whole Web
shield program, seems to slow down my web browsing.
Use what you want.

One problem I found with Web Shield was that it wouldn't allow some
Javascript links to work. The USTA web site is one I use that was totally
crippled by it. I still have Web Shield enabled, but disabled the IE and
FireFox plug-in for Avast. That was the most common solution found on line;
it allows Web Shield to still run for blocking unwanted sites and
questionable downloads, but also allows my JS links to work. Maybe a later
program update will correct it, since it is a known problem with this
version.
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SC Tom