{"id":51,"date":"2010-10-15T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2010\/10\/15\/AVGAreTheyUntrustworthy.aspx"},"modified":"2010-10-15T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:03:37","slug":"avg-are-they-untrustworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"AVG \u2013 Are they untrustworthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I updated to AVG Free 2011, and a short while later, I was presented with this popup to scan my system with the PC Analyzer.&#160; I figured, what the heck.&#160; When the scanning was complete, I noticed that it said my hard drive was 52% fragmented\u2026 and if I wanted to fix it \u201conce\u201d i could do so for free, or buy a 12 month subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Well, being the savvy user that I am (and also concerned at how my hard drive could become so fragmented) \u2013 I grabbed windows Disk Defragmenter tool and checked my hard drive.&#160; Windows reports that I\u2019m 1% fragmented, and AVG reports that I\u2019m 52% fragmented.<\/p>\n<p>Now, AVG has always seemed to be an excellent tool, and I have recently stopped using Trend Micro and Norton (both of which I used to pay for) for the simple and seemingly solid protection of AVG. <\/p>\n<p>However, I have to ask \u2013 is their Fragmentation engine just that buggy, or are they being dishonest and unethical by representing a level of PC Problems that do not actually exist, thinking that most users will just run out and buy their additional software\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/AVGAretheyuntrustworthy_D03C\/image_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/AVGAretheyuntrustworthy_D03C\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"1254\" height=\"556\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I wasn\u2019t so impressed with AVG\u2019s PC Analyzer Product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; This afternoon I updated to AVG Free 2011, and a short while later, I was presented with this popup to scan my system with the PC Analyzer.&#160; I figured, what the heck.&#160; When the scanning was complete, I noticed that it said my hard drive was 52% fragmented\u2026 and if I wanted to fix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AVG \u2013 Are they untrustworthy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}