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Avast issues
Jan. 25th, 2015 03:49 pmThe other day, I posted about how my System Restore thing had been inexplicably set to use 50% of the drive, which was eating up way too much hard drive space, and that I'd lowered it to around 20%. Well, I checked it again just now, because I found that my hard drive was starting to mysteriously fill up again, and I noticed that the System Restore had been set back to use 50% yet again on its own.
Well, after a bit more searching on Google, it turns out that Avast is apparently the culprit behind this. Rather annoying, that. I'd already uninstalled that useless Grimefighter and SecureLine adware bullshit from Avast a while back, but had left this NG thing alone because I didn't know what it was. Now I know, and now it's uninstalled as well.
I'd switched to Avast a year or two ago because I was tired of that asinine WS.Reputation.1 bullshit that Symantec was doing (tl;dr version: it would inappropriately flag files I downloaded as "suspicious" and automatically delete them without prompting me and with no chance of recovery, meaning that I had to redownload them after disabling Symantec, and there didn't seem to be any way to permanently disable this "feature," no matter what I tried), but if Avast is going to be doing shit like the above, maybe it's time I started looking for yet another anti-virus/Internet security application.
Well, after a bit more searching on Google, it turns out that Avast is apparently the culprit behind this. Rather annoying, that. I'd already uninstalled that useless Grimefighter and SecureLine adware bullshit from Avast a while back, but had left this NG thing alone because I didn't know what it was. Now I know, and now it's uninstalled as well.
I'd switched to Avast a year or two ago because I was tired of that asinine WS.Reputation.1 bullshit that Symantec was doing (tl;dr version: it would inappropriately flag files I downloaded as "suspicious" and automatically delete them without prompting me and with no chance of recovery, meaning that I had to redownload them after disabling Symantec, and there didn't seem to be any way to permanently disable this "feature," no matter what I tried), but if Avast is going to be doing shit like the above, maybe it's time I started looking for yet another anti-virus/Internet security application.
