So. One of my home machines uses Avast antivirus, and the other one still uses AVG, mostly because I'm lazy [but honest] and partly because I wanted to be able to compare them directly.
Mostly, I rarely notice the difference. However. AVG 'upgraded' itself, and now it "warns" me when an application is using "too much" memory. Apparently anything over 300k is sometimes too much. So when I'm using Netflix, AVG will sometimes start popping up to warn me that Internet Exploder is using a bunch of memory.
Which, yes, I know. I realize the software isn't smart enough to (A) know when an app is supposed to be using a lot of memory, or (B) know when it's annoying the shit out of me. The technology does exist that would allow it to learn, but perhaps that's asking too much. Popping something up in front of the video I'm watching is prohibitively annoying, though.
I spent about ten minutes sorting through options and crap, and AVG has a setting telling it not to notify me, and another saying not to bug me if I've got an app in full-screen mode.
As it turns out, these do not work.
Sooo . . . as soon as I have the time, I'll uninstall AVG and install Avast on that machine. Sorry, AVG, but it's like three strikes too many, and I let you have a couple of strikes for free, at the beginning. Of course, it's possible I'll find that Avast doesn't work great with Netflix, either, but it's worth finding out.