Why Did You Dislike Your Least-Favorite Antivirus?

[Chromatinfish 123]

I'm curious why you disliked your least-favorite antivirus? Is it horrible support? Terrible detection? BSOD on install? For me:

Least-Favorite Software: BitDefender
Reason Why: It has trashed my system. Period.

Vote in the poll please and don't reply if your answer is already in the poll. Reply only if your reason is not displayed in the poll.

 

[Deleted member 21043]

Bad protection I would say (that kind of includes the detections).

 

[Cowpipe]

I'm also going to vote for Bad Customer Facing Staff. My least favourite AV is reasonable software (not the best, not the worst), but some of the staff I've encountered have been very friendly and helpful, and others have been patronising and hostile, the bad experiences unfortunately taint the good for me with that software.

 

[BoraMurdar]

I personally dislike some AV's because of their performance and bug issues affecting the system.
Detection doesn't bother me, as it is near or above industry average let's say

 

[illumination]

^^^ Same as above, performance for me has been a big turn off of a few AV's, any where from serious system resource usage, to bugs cause issues if not worse.

 

[software182]

Too Expensive

 

[Chromatinfish 123]

Too Expensive

(Smack-a-hol)
Errr. Hmm. Err

 

[Littlebits]

Bad performance and high false positives is what will keep me away from certain AV's.
Detection rate is not important since I use common sense and UAC.

Enjoy!!

 

[Deleted member 178]

bad performances, the rest i can handle myself

 

[WinXPert]

Smadav: Bad performance, can detect but can't remove, buggy, there are better free lightweight AVs available

I tried it once. After installation/update it did some scanning. Found a few malwares both HDD and USB drive. After safely removing the USB drive it still keeps on nagging me with pop ups of detection in a now non-existent drive.

 

[Koroke San]

some AV i tried before..whitelist not work as well & slow boot time.

 

[Rahadian Putra]

Bad performance, I don't like an Av when it's hogging my system, eating my ram, slowing down my internet speed or my PC and thus..disturbing my work. I prefer using an AV with average detection but stable and light than an Av with excellent detection but keep making trouble for my PC.

 

[Nico@FMA]

Hmm claiming things they cannot uphold ...not calling names here but it starts with a C

 

[Deleted member 178]

Hmm claiming things they cannot uphold ...not calling names here but it starts with a C

 

[Oxygen]

Bad performance is the only thing that makes me dislike anything.

 

[WinXPert]

Hmm claiming things they cannot uphold ...not calling names here but it starts with a C

Clingons?

 

[MrXidus]

I voted bad performance and this can vary between multiple variables and I'll list some.

When I made the switch to Windows Defender [Windows 8] I have not experienced any of the issues below.

- Windows Explorer performance slowed due to real-time scanners.
- Slower thumbnail generation and loading.
- Modifying, copying, moving files may have a delay.
- Windows Search results take longer to index and load.
- Increased boot up time and shut down times.
- Some programs may take longer to launch.
- False positives, ain't no body got time for that.

Thanks.

 

[Nico@FMA]

Clingons?

No clueless

 

[Ink]

Again like others, Bad performance was the main issue.

Disliking a product based on bad detection is laughable.

 

[Nikos751]

Except from bad performance, I hate a product which disturbs the user without a reason.