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AVG antivirus
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2009–2021), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Very hard to remove and intercepts everything, slowing the computerUnreviewed
20092026- Antivirus software pushes people into paid subscriptions and slows systems down2021-01-20
- Turning off the antivirus protection is hard to do2019-08-14
- Antivirus is very hard to remove and intercepts everything, slowing the computer2016-11-11
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Antivirus software pushes people into paid subscriptions and slows systems down2021-01-20
- Turning off the antivirus protection is hard to do2019-08-14
- Antivirus is very hard to remove and intercepts everything, slowing the computer2016-11-11
- Constant upsell popups and notifications for add-ons even after purchase2016-07-07
- Hijacks Firefox new tabs and shows an unwanted search page2009-07-21
- Slows every disk read, download, link click and app launch to a crawl2009-07-21
- Computer runs noticeably slower during AVG's weekly scan2009-07-21
- Default installer adds unwanted link checker and toolbar that nag the user2009-07-21