{"id":3553,"date":"2015-12-11T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:48:53","slug":"avg-goodbye-trying-avast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/12\/11\/avg-goodbye-trying-avast\/","title":{"rendered":"AVG Goodbye &#8211; Trying Avast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AVG rudely interrupted a game I was playing yesterday insisting it needed a reboot, so instead it got the boot.\u00a0 Not acceptable behavior on the part of an anti-virus program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So now I&#8217;m trying Avast on my Windows box which I use to play Flyff (a graphical MMORPG in which you get to fly around and battle various critters, party with other players, buy, sell, and trade).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve actually used Avast in the past but it let more malware slip through than AVG but if the anti-viral software is rendering the machine non-functional, might as well let the viruses get it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you&#8217;re in the middle of a battle and disconnect, the game decides that you lost the battle because it considers disconnecting in the midst of a battle an attempt to cheat.\u00a0 So when AVG disconnected me, that counted as a loss, not cool AVG.\u00a0 BAD AVG.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AVG rudely interrupted a game I was playing yesterday insisting it needed a reboot, so instead it got the boot.\u00a0 Not acceptable behavior on the part of an anti-virus program. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So now I&#8217;m trying Avast on my Windows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/12\/11\/avg-goodbye-trying-avast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}