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I've used Avast. I tried AVX once before Avast aquired it, and found it rendered internet access unusable with no fixes found. I still use Avast, even though
by stevetron 3y ago
I've used Avast. I tried AVX once before Avast aquired it, and found it rendered internet access unusable with no fixes found. I still use Avast, even though it is owned now by the evil Norton empire. Yes, I used to use Norton way back in the dark ages, and paid the required annual subscription fee, and I found one day when I tried to do some work that 75% of my cpu cycles were in-use by Norton anti virus. On that day, I went shopping for alternatives. My next one was not Avast, but something else...I forget....and it lasted until I found it chewing up all my cpu cycles, and that's when I went to Avast, ever mindful that I was dealing with a product from an ex-Soviet contry.
- bulhi 3y agoDude, I'm from that country and I'm slightly offended. I also happen to know one of the co-founders of Avast and the way I see it is the whole company of boy scouts got corrupted by the insatiable greed of private equity. A concept that the land of the free blessed us with.
- mardifoufs 3y agoI get your point but private equity is a squarely European concept lol.
- somsak2 3y agosource? does not seem like it based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_private_equity_and_venture_capital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_private_equity_and_...
- ngc248 3y agoKaspersky was the best out of all of em. Its been almost ten years since I ran an AV though.
- usr1106 3y agoRight, ex-soviet would not raise confidence. Neither would USA. Google Street View collecting WiFi data, Snowden, spying on their allies like chancellor Merkel's phone, electing a president who has character traits of a 3 year old, I guess the list could go on and on. By the way Avast was Czech. And Czechoslovakia is known for the Prague Spring. Even if that ended in defeat, they were never part of the Soviet Union.
- Toutouxc 3y ago> with a product from an ex-Soviet contry Just in case you don’t know: the Czech Republic is not a post-Soviet country, i.e. it was never part of the Soviet Union. It’s an ex Eastern bloc country, at this point one of the most developed and modern eastern countries. Our wages could be a little higher and our politicians a little less populist, but otherwise we’re a legit, safe, democratic country.