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third-party antivirus software
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2016–2019), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with third-party antivirus software, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 5 complaints
- Third-party antivirus shows disruptive notifications and toolbars that degrade performance2019-08-15
- Makes powerful PCs nearly unusable, slowing everything and hidden from Task Manager2019-03-24
- Slows the system down, pushes annoying notifications, and conflicts with other applications2018-11-27
- Must disable misfeatures like web protection and plugins one by one2016-11-11
- Shows big scary alerts for trivial things and auto-deletes cookies2016-11-11