Is it safe to uninstall AVG?

[Kimon]

It has been kind of a burden, not to mention annoying, and the only way it really works properly is if I use the free trials for the paid version. I think I may be safe, because my friend has a brother who programs computers did some stuff with my firewall, presumably fixing it and making the security tighter after a hacker nearly loving tore my computer apart, along with installing Malwarebytes, CCleaner, and Spybot - Search and destroy. The last one apparently just searches for viruses and deletes them or something, hence the name. Do you think I will be fine without AVG, or should I just keep it and deal with: "INSTALL OUR loving TOOLBAR AND OUR PAID VERSION IT GIVES YOU THE ILLUSION THAT THINGS LOAD FASTER." In fact I think it forgeted something up in my firewall, because while downgrading to the free version it said it would shut it off, so I clicked a thing that said 'Activate my firewall,' assuming it would turn on afterwards. When I checked my firewall, it said it does not have the recommended settings, so I tried clicking on it and it gave me an error code. I clicked on advanced settings, and that gave me an error code. It might be a coincidence, or AVG forgeted up something. I kind of doubt it was my friend's brother because I never had problems with it before, not a single virus or anything, and he fixed it like a year and a half ago.

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[Port]

deal with: "INSTALL OUR loving TOOLBAR AND OUR PAID VERSION IT GIVES YOU THE ILLUSION THAT THINGS LOAD FASTER."

Where are you seeing this?

I use AVG Free on all my Windows installations (on everything else, I use nothing) and I never get stuff like this.

[Timezbrick]

AVG does say my laptop boots up faster because of AVG but it doesn't.

[Port]

AVG does say my laptop boots up faster because of AVG but it doesn't.

never seen this claim anywhere in the software

[Kimon]

Where are you seeing this?

I use AVG Free on all my Windows installations (on everything else, I use nothing) and I never get stuff like this.

Whenever it updates, really. Maybe I just overreacted to having to see that every time I update but my question still stands.

never seen this claim anywhere in the software

If I had a picture, I would show you, but for example I tried watching youtube, but it was slow as stuff. AVG then courteously reminded me it was "speeding up the video" with a laggy, obnoxious pop-up.

[Port]

Whenever it updates, really. Maybe I just overreacted to having to see that every time I update but my question still stands.
If I had a picture, I would show you, but for example I tried watching youtube, but it was slow as stuff. AVG then courteously reminded me it was "speeding up the video" with a laggy, obnoxious pop-up.

Well I've never seen that happen. Are you using the proper version from this site?

[Kimon]

Well I've never seen that happen. Are you using the proper version from this site?

Yes, but that was during the free trial. Maybe they purposely make it stuffty?

[dotdotheptagon]

Meh. Use Microsoft Security Essentials; it's free and does the job as good as any other antivirus program. Most people don't understand how surprisingly ineffective these programs are. They will help you detect infections for uncrypted and unobfuscated legacy malware but they usually won't do jack stuff with anything else. Really if you're not absolutely handicapped, you could go without any antivirus and be completely fine.

[Kimon]

Meh. Use Microsoft Security Essentials; it's free and does the job as good as any other antivirus program. Most people don't understand how surprisingly ineffective these programs are. They will help you detect infections for uncrypted and unobfuscated legacy malware but they usually won't do jack stuff with anything else. Really if you're not absolutely handicapped, you could go without any antivirus and be completely fine.

I actually have that, too. When he was using it I assumed it came with the computer or something.

[dotdotheptagon]

I think I actually have that. When he was using it I assumed it came with the computer.

It's not really a good idea to run two antivirus programs at once, it will cause problems for each of them. You should chose one or the other.

[Kimon]

It's not really a good idea to run two antivirus programs at once, it will cause problems for each of them. You should chose one or the other.

Should I just get rid of AVG, then?

[Yosher]

Uninstall now.

Absolutely loving awful antivirus.

[Kimon]

Alright I'll start a poll. First one to 5 wins, go.

Alright, the majority wins. Uninstalling.