I'm done with AVG free Antivirus. Atleast for now.

Avg has finally done it. I have praised this free antivirus for a couple of years now. I even install it on new systems I build, but like I stated in my post on February 12th of this year, the latest version, version 9, is a far cry from previous versions.

I tried to live with version 9’s idiosyncrasies; I even tweaked several of the tools to get them to work a little smoother with my system, but then came the latest updates.
Thursday morning, it did its normal automatic updates, but this time it had to restart my computer in order for the updates to take affect. Everything seemed OK upon reboot, but as soon as I used Outlook Express to check my e-mails, it seemed like it took forever to retrieve them. When I was done with my e-mails, I attempted to surf the web, attempted being the key word. My internet connection was sooooo ssssllllloooowwww. I could have probably run a marathon, changed the oil in both my cars, and painted my garage again before the home page opened up. Everything I attempted to do, where meet with the same results. I tried to tweak AVG, but that didn’t work and of course it has nowhere to temporarily turn it off, so I tried a system restore.

When I went into the System Restore option, I noticed that AVG had two restore points from the day before. AVG had updated TWICE. The first one was an update for version 8 and then three minutes later, an update for Version 9. Why it did an update for version 8 is beyond me, so I tried to restore to before the version 8 update. After it went through all its steps and restarted the computer, it told me the restoration was incomplete. I then tried to restore to Wednesday, but again, I got an incomplete restoration. By this time, I was so fed up with AVG, I just uninstalled it.

Now I had a bigger problem: NO ANTIVIRUS ON MY COMPUTER.
At this point, I did a search on Bing for good free antivirus software. The search lead me to the following website: http://freebies.about.com/od/securityfreebies/tp/best-antivirus.htm . This link listed the top three free antivirus software.
1.) Avast Home Edition Free Antivirus
2.) Avira Personal Free Antivirus
You’ll never guess what number 3 was? If you said AVG Antivirus Free Edition, you are correct. After reading the reviews, I decided to download Avast.

Stay tuned for my review of Avast. I am already disappointed in one feature. You must register it within 30 days to keep it active and then every year there after. I have never heard of registering a FREE version of software in order to use it.

It better be one heck of an antivirus.