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You can get all of the help you need here, along with advice on removing pesky badware and choosing the right antivirus for you! If you see any Spam - And trust me, we get a lot - Please report it! Here’s the thing, i’ve been using Avast for over 8 years on every computer I owned during that time. It seemed, effective, safe and free. But lately, for the past few months, my Avast keeps popping up in the lower right with all these messages like “your PC is being slowed down by all this crap, we can fix it” “your drivers are outdated, which can cause serious issues, click here to update” “your computer has x security issues, click here to fix them” “millions of PC are attacked every day, click here for real time protection” and more and when I look, all the features are locked behind a paywall.

I have some doubt since i read avast sell data of pc users to third party. I not like this, in privacy settings i turn off all data sharing option but still i think avast some information keep share. But this antivirus is the best i found after all this years, is not so heavy for my PC and always took care of malware. Avast AV also gives you good control of settings, all the annoying features can be easily turned off, Avast has always had a good interface which really helps navigating through the various.

They want me to buy the “premium version” Avast’s own website warns people about the “your drivers are out of date, pay us to update the drivers” scam and how there is all this “ransomware” out there that threatens to do bad stuff to your computer unless you pay them yet they themselves are using the same tactic!!! It’s more subtle, because they aren’t thresting me directly, only suggesting to me that the threat is out there unless I pay them, so it’s more like Mob racketeering. Meanwhile, when I do into the auto updaters on my computer and go into my drivers and click “search for driver updates”, it always tells me I have the latest drivers and yet Avast keeps telling me my drivers are out of date and wants me to pay them to get the updates. I’m 99% sure that I’m using the “real” version of Avast, because it’s the same one I’ve been using for the last 8 years.but wtf? I’ll admit, i’m seriously considering the same action. Given that many reddit posts claim that the default windows 10 defender is better, do I even need 3rd party software?

Always in the past, everyone always used to say that the default protection was no good and that it was almost mandatory to install 3rd party software, now people seem to be saying that the default software is better. My cable internet provider also claims that they have antivirus in there too but I don’t see it also, I just 2 separate scans with both Avast and windows defender respectively and neither of them found any threats on my computer, which I guess is good, but then, I still don’t kniw what caused the blue screen errors.

Could it be that my computer is just too old? In the last 10 years, i’ve gone through 3 computers, i’ver never had a computer last more than 3 years before the BSOD ruined it. My current one is the longest i’ve ever managed to keep a computer running in all that time and its so weird how it happens, the computer will seem perfect for 99% of it’s lifetime, theres no gradual degradation or warning or anything, it will run perfect and then suddenly, it’s BSOD BSOD BSOD time to get a new one. Create an outlook email account. • • • • • • •.

Reliable ftp for mac. Also I want to note, that i’ve been having sporadic blue screen errors lately and my USB ports stopped working. I dunno if it’s because my computer is 4 years old or not, some google results have suggested it’s because my drivers are out of date. A website called drivereasy dot com suggested some memory checks and stuff and then at the very bottom of their page suggested I install their software and that I can update the drivers safely and easily, but when I looked on reddit, many people advised against ising driver easy and claimed it was unsafe so I did not download it. I have not downloaded anything new in months except for a couple of game I bought through Steam.