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<blockquote data-quote="XLR8R" data-source="post: 882037" data-attributes="member: 85385">My only gripe with Avast is the constant niggling bugs. They fix some with a new version but they also introduce some. Those bugs, sometimes end up affecting the protection (like the ini inconsistency creating some conditions which cause a delay in response for certain shields). Although, these impacts are generally not major, it is aggravating to see that a 100% product becomes a 95% product only because of what I perceive as silly bugs.In 2018 Avast/AVG had some very funny issues with certain (Acer) laptops where enabling the nested virtualization and deep scan options would cause the computer to not boot up. This may have to do with the BIOS/UEFI on those machines, but my question is why isn't Avast doing the QA it needs to do?You do know Avast and AVG collectively lost a lot of customers due to the various issues and bugs after the merger? Upon merger, they had 400+ million and 4 years later it is around 435 million. That's very stagnant growth if taken on year-on-year basis. The bugs on the initial merger of technology has cost them a lot, even the jumpshot controversy created enough of a dent that Avast is mentioning it in their annual reports as an event of significance. Of course, they have a good product, and a good product speaks for itself, they will never be a pariah in the market. But they can do much better IMHO.At the end of the day, very few AVs have privacy friendly operation - I guess I can count them on one hand. One needs to worry more about having good protection. But bugs, especially ones that prevent normal operation of a computer, are very costly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="XLR8R, post: 882037, member: 85385"] My only gripe with Avast is the constant niggling bugs. They fix some with a new version but they also introduce some. Those bugs, sometimes end up affecting the protection (like the ini inconsistency creating some conditions which cause a delay in response for certain shields). Although, these impacts are generally not major, it is aggravating to see that a 100% product becomes a 95% product only because of what I perceive as silly bugs. In 2018 Avast/AVG had some very funny issues with certain (Acer) laptops where enabling the nested virtualization and deep scan options would cause the computer to not boot up. This may have to do with the BIOS/UEFI on those machines, but my question is why isn't Avast doing the QA it needs to do? You do know Avast and AVG collectively lost a lot of customers due to the various issues and bugs after the merger? Upon merger, they had 400+ million and 4 years later it is around 435 million. That's very stagnant growth if taken on year-on-year basis. The bugs on the initial merger of technology has cost them a lot, even the jumpshot controversy created enough of a dent that Avast is mentioning it in their annual reports as an event of significance. Of course, they have a good product, and a good product speaks for itself, they will never be a pariah in the market. But they can do much better IMHO. At the end of the day, very few AVs have privacy friendly operation - I guess I can count them on one hand. One needs to worry more about having good protection. But bugs, especially ones that prevent normal operation of a computer, are very costly. [/QUOTE]

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