On 02 Apr 2014, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

Except I really have come to think it was AVG :-)

But either way, I'm not planning to go back there at the moment.

Anyway, the message that I hated most was the one that pops up *at
boot time* telling me every single time what I already knew about
protections I didn't enable and so forth. They included some
things that I had no reason to want, IMO.

Maybe it was Avira Antivirus. I used that one for some years, but they
kept ramping up the advertising until I just couldn't take it any more.
Avast manages to keep it under my pain threshold.

I used AVG for a while, too. It caused me problems, but I don't
remember what they were.