Posted by Tarandon on 15th November 2009
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AVG 9.0 Free Sucks for Gamers

I’ve been using AVG free for amost 5 years now.  It really couldn’t be beat for free antivirus software and link scanner.  The software is compact, takes up little footprint, and really does a fine job of protecting your PC.

If you’re a PC Gamer however, I strongly advise against the upgrade to version 9.0.  In version 9.0 they’ve intentionally inserted scripts that minimize the game your in every 30 minutes and bring you back to the desktop.  I say intentionally because not interrupting game play is listed as a feature in the basic price package.  When I saw this I figured it affected games when it runs a scan on my PC. NOT THE CASE!

AVG 9.0 Game Mode WTF

AVG 9.0 Game Mode WTF

Every 30 minutes or so, whatever game your playing, will just minimize without warning leaving you player idol which is infuriating.  I understand that they’re trying to nag you into buying the basic version, but the tactic used has actually crossed the line from helpful service to virus like behaviour.  I’m certainly not going to spend $34.99 for a program that behaves like a virus.  I download your program to prevent annoyances like that from appearing on my PC altogether. AVG crossed over to the darkside with version 9.0 and I’ll never use it again.

I’ll be deleting your software as soon as I can find a suitable replacement. You can also bet your ass that I’ll evangelizing your services to less competent computer users who ask me to help them manage their PC’s.  (Most of whom, don’t mind spending the $34.99 by the way.)

If anyone has suggestions for more customer oriented non-virus like ANTI VIRUS programs… please leave me a note in the comments.

Bye AVG, I hate you.

Sincerely,

Tarandon

    1 Response

  1. Randy says:
    January 14, 2010 at 10:43 PM

    If you do buy the AVG 9.0, be aware that there is a huge problem with avgfws9.exe consuming a large percentage of CPU cycles, hogging memory, and continually thrashing the C drive (probably due to rapid allocation/deallocation of large amounts of memory). This still exists in the 725 build (most recent) and they claim it will be fixed in the next update, but who knows when that will be. I wonder how many drives AVG has destroyed with this defect? A problem like this should never make its way into a release build. It sucks. No wonder there’s no public forum for actual customers.

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