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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1023488" data-attributes="member: 78686">Yeah, of course. They got some bad reputation due to that Jumpshot scandal and nags &amp; upselling in their free version but as an Antivirus it&#039;s solid and definitely one of the best out there.It was pretty good before they merged with AVG but became a lot better after. Many of AVG&#039;s technology like the behavior blocker and system-wide web blocking are tech from AVG.It looks like the AVG brand will stay. There hasn&#039;t been any indication of canceling it. The main/only difference between them is the UI. Looks like you&#039;re interested in the paid versions and in that case you won&#039;t have to worry about nags. They even have a separate option to turn off any such notifications and offers. I&#039;m a big fan of Avast&#039;s automated signature creation system that can create generic signatures on the fly within minutes after submission and immediately pushes them to user&#039;s device via their streaming updates. Every Avast user always has the latest update. You don&#039;t have to think about performing a signature update before scanning something. So yeah, as an AV it&#039;s very good. How it performs on your device and whether you like other things about it is something you will have to check by yourself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1023488, member: 78686"] Yeah, of course. They got some bad reputation due to that Jumpshot scandal and nags & upselling in their free version but as an Antivirus it's solid and definitely one of the best out there. It was pretty good before they merged with AVG but became a lot better after. Many of AVG's technology like the behavior blocker and system-wide web blocking are tech from AVG. It looks like the AVG brand will stay. There hasn't been any indication of canceling it. The main/only difference between them is the UI. Looks like you're interested in the paid versions and in that case you won't have to worry about nags. They even have a separate option to turn off any such notifications and offers. I'm a big fan of Avast's automated signature creation system that can create generic signatures on the fly within minutes after submission and immediately pushes them to user's device via their streaming updates. Every Avast user always has the latest update. You don't have to think about performing a signature update before scanning something. So yeah, as an AV it's very good. How it performs on your device and whether you like other things about it is something you will have to check by yourself. [/QUOTE]

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