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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 820523"><p>+1</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day this back and forth is pointless. No product is perfect and no product fits everyone's needs. Every single product will miss things and chances are if a particular product is more popular, the higher the chance of someone seeing an infection with that product being used, as it's market share is probably very large. It would be like having 10 car owners, 8 owning Audi's and 2 owning a Mercedes. Lets say on average 2 of the car owners get into an accident, chances are an Audi would be involved as there are more Audi owners than Mercedes.</p><p></p><p>As for Avast, I have zero issues with it when it comes to protection. It's a very capable program and does it's job quite well. I don't use it, or recommend quite simply because I am not a fan of how they harvest users data, as well as trying to hide it, hoping no one will notice. It has absolutely nothing to do with protection capabilities. TBH, if they wake up and stop treating their customers this way, I will gladly go back to using/recommending it, but until then it's not for me.</p><p></p><p>As I always and will continue to say, stop focusing on test results, they can be handy and helpful, but they aren't the end all be all. There's way more to a product than how it may score on a test, especially one that doesn't represent the real world. Try out the products for yourself and see which one you like and works best for you, be it Avast or otherwise, you are more than protected. After all your habits will make the biggest difference at the end of the day, so use which every product you like most.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p><p></p><p>[USER=75462]@beavisviruses[/USER]</p><p></p><p>Buddy, no offence, but I seriously think you need to start respecting other people opinions on these matters. Just because you "fix" computers, does not mean you can belittle people. There are tons of people hear that do the exact same thing as you and have tons of knowledge on these matters. Everyone has an opinion and everyone has different experiences when it comes to these things. Many people hear have brought up excellent points, whether you choose to listen to them, or not is totally up to you, but just because you disagree doesn't make your point more valid, sorry but that's the truth. After all your stance is YOUR opinion and unfortunately is not FACT. At the end of the day, we all have programs we like and dislike, but just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad for everyone else. If you don't like Avast, or Eset that's fine, but again, that's your opinion/preference/prerogative, it doesn't make it such that you are more right than someone who likes these products.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite140" alt=":emoji_beer:" title="Beer :emoji_beer:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":emoji_beer:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 820523"] +1 At the end of the day this back and forth is pointless. No product is perfect and no product fits everyone's needs. Every single product will miss things and chances are if a particular product is more popular, the higher the chance of someone seeing an infection with that product being used, as it's market share is probably very large. It would be like having 10 car owners, 8 owning Audi's and 2 owning a Mercedes. Lets say on average 2 of the car owners get into an accident, chances are an Audi would be involved as there are more Audi owners than Mercedes. As for Avast, I have zero issues with it when it comes to protection. It's a very capable program and does it's job quite well. I don't use it, or recommend quite simply because I am not a fan of how they harvest users data, as well as trying to hide it, hoping no one will notice. It has absolutely nothing to do with protection capabilities. TBH, if they wake up and stop treating their customers this way, I will gladly go back to using/recommending it, but until then it's not for me. As I always and will continue to say, stop focusing on test results, they can be handy and helpful, but they aren't the end all be all. There's way more to a product than how it may score on a test, especially one that doesn't represent the real world. Try out the products for yourself and see which one you like and works best for you, be it Avast or otherwise, you are more than protected. After all your habits will make the biggest difference at the end of the day, so use which every product you like most.(y) [USER=75462]@beavisviruses[/USER] Buddy, no offence, but I seriously think you need to start respecting other people opinions on these matters. Just because you "fix" computers, does not mean you can belittle people. There are tons of people hear that do the exact same thing as you and have tons of knowledge on these matters. Everyone has an opinion and everyone has different experiences when it comes to these things. Many people hear have brought up excellent points, whether you choose to listen to them, or not is totally up to you, but just because you disagree doesn't make your point more valid, sorry but that's the truth. After all your stance is YOUR opinion and unfortunately is not FACT. At the end of the day, we all have programs we like and dislike, but just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad for everyone else. If you don't like Avast, or Eset that's fine, but again, that's your opinion/preference/prerogative, it doesn't make it such that you are more right than someone who likes these products.:emoji_beer: [/QUOTE]
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