AVG is annoying
I love AVG as much as the next anti-virus program – that is, the viruses they don’t pick up are always the ones that arse up your computer. Because of my view on anti-virus software I don’t stick with AVG out of any real preference – it’s not any faster or catches significantly more viruses than the others. The only real reason I stick with it is because I know it. And the thing I know the most about it is how much of a pain in the ass it can be.
It’s a lot better than it used to be; back in the heady days of 2007 we were assaulted with focus-grabbing pop-up windows whenever it wanted to download an update, and a further focus-grabbing pop-up window when it could be bothered installing the downloaded update. Grisoft seem to have fixed this rather annoying issue, but to this day there still remains a hugely annoying feature – one that is especially annoying if you know any technophobes / computer illiterates with it installed – the one of Grisoft releasing a new version of AVG every 8-12 months.
Normally this wouldn’t be a problem – with any other bit of software you’d simply tell it to fuck off and ignore the new version, or the software would be properly designed so that automatic updating of the core program itself could be automated. But no, instead we’re stuck with stupid annoying pop-ups reminding us to update to the new version before our protection is disabled.
Times like these make me want to go back to Symantec Anti-virus, and that’s saying something…