I know I said I would never use AVG again, but guess what I just installed?
I still like Avast and recommend it to people with a computer not as possessed as mine.
I had to remove Avast and figured AVG is better than no AV protection. I sure hope AVG won't start using 80% of my CPU like JU_88.
Here's a little bit on why I got rid of Avast:
Every once in a while (been happening for a long time now) I would boot up my computer and the little Avast bubble in the system tray would appear with the red symbol as if it was disabled. When it first started happening, I would go to Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - and choose Avast. From there I could do a repair and be on my way again (this was the solution I found on the Avast forums). Well, somewhere along the way it started affecting the bootup process. My computer would just hang. I would have to boot into Safe Mode to resolve the issue (been doing this for quite a while, too). Well, today just happened to do the same, except it didn't go too well. It has been at the back of my mind what would happen if Avast wouldn't repair. I found out today.
I uninstalled it via Safe Mode and redownloaded it. Once installed and rebooted, the same thing happened. I uninstalled it again in Safe Mode and went crawling back to AVG.
AVG has sure changed since I last used it (7.5 I think). Hopefully, I won't have any issues with it like I did Avast. Someday when I get a different computer I will probably go back to Avast. Right now, though, I am relegated to using AVG again.