On another machine running XP it has similar results, slowing down performance of some online games. Have this installed on a 2GB Vista machine and it slows it down like molasses dripping down a picket fence. Not that a lot of the reviews on this page sound awfully similar, having the same grammatical style and syntax, one might question their authenticity. No this is not another cookie-cutter extol-the-virtues-of-the-program review. At this point I think AVG, while not quite as good at protection (but very close) is the way to go. So the lack of controls that allow you to change settings on ads and pop ups and the more confusing interface might be tolerable, but the slow speed is not. Avast won me away from Norton Anti-Virus back in the day, simply because it was so fast starting up Windows. And the final reason I am moving away from Avast is that it seems to take longer and longer for Windows to boot up with it installed. And now with version 9 they have made the registration go through a return email, rather than doing it right within the program, which was far more convenient. But more importantly, Avast removed come settings and abilities in version 8 as well. First, I hate the Windows 8 style interface. Faster browser now also.įor years Avast was the only free Anti-Virus I would use or recommend.
I almost walked away from avast over this. Lots of time wasted but if this helps someone else great. You will also not accidentally turn the option on again if you turn it off.Īvast should warn about this issue during install but they do not. avast will now be installed without the browser add-ons and you will not encounter this issue. When you get to the screen that shows the items to be installed uncheck the option to install "Browser Protection".
To stop this from happening to anyone else I would highly suggest when installing this version of avast to make sure to do a custom install not the standard install. Some logged you out, some would not display certain things and others just would not work at all. Of course I know how to deal with this now but for the general non techie how would they ever figure it out. This only effected IE not Chrome (which I hate). Finally I figured out that if you turn off the avast browser add-on's it fixes everything. Tried turning off the shields but that did not help. All HTTPs sites were rendered broken and I worked for a long time working this out as I did not try any of them before installing avast. I thought IE because Chrome did not have same issues. Installed on a clean Windows 7 machine and that is where the problem started.įirst I was not sure if the issue was avast, the website or the IE. With the newest version of avast I went through a lot of problems.
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