AVG Protection for Xperia™

Can you please let us remove the "apps running" notifcation from the status bar? It is very annoying for those of us who like a clean status bar without the icons. Thank you

Good app just need to remove ads

Nice

Liked the app

Was an actual useful app with friendly interface, now ruined with the modern gimmick and ads? Really? A protection app with ADS? And yes, listen to your users. The app was FINE the way it was. Do not try to make it everything at once. Revert back, NOW!

Unknown sources enabled. (Android 8.0 Oreo) Although this version of AVG is supposed to be specifically for Xperia phones, my Xperia XZ Premium now has this false positive being constantly displayed after the Oreo upgrade. Android 8 no longer has this setting, so each app must separately be given permission to sideload APKs. From a quick websearch, I find other versions of AVG have been upgraded to fix this, but not the Xperia version, even though Sony are the 1st OEM to upgrade to Oreo after Google Pixel.

What a let down! First day of the update the app still able to read my pro subscription. A day after, it force me to purchase pro again. I disconnect my account and tried to login back. Unfortunately your website won't load as well

Used to be good when it was just a antivirus product. I would have given it five stars infact. It's trying to be too many things now though and the constant advertising of features can only be considered spam. Bring back a simple antivirus tool and ditch the junk-ware that hogs phone memory.

Previous version was excellent. This version doesn't have specific enough files. Unhelpful. It's already called AVG Pro in the app logo, so why should I be subjected to a bombardment of ads.

Last update today make the app bit annoying, such junk remover + booster.. What we need just the best antivirus protection without bunch of adds + useless function that make phone bit laggy with many notifications (previous version is better)

Dropped my rating from 4 star. Previous version was an AV. Now it's an ad portal. And the 1st ad was ambush ware, telling me that my phone is infected. I assume the "check notification" button would of went to the purchase page.

Paid to upgrade and remove adverts, only to then have a tonne of adverts show up everywhere. Would rather have my money back and let me phone do it's own thing, honestly such a waste

Terrible. You pay a fortune for a high end Sony phone and you get stuck with advert rich app, with an interface telling you about problems which can't be resolved. It doesn't work! The virus updater refuses to work as well. I bet the developer uses an I phone and has no idea how poor this app is in Android....... Can't even uninstall.

I am struggling finding a risk. I have an Xperia XZ premium and apparently I have "unknown sources enabled"? Please help. Also, there are so many adverts I can't figure out what is AVG and what is ads! Slightly frustrating when trying to see what new products AVG offers. I haven't got time to try and work out what is what. Maybe make the ads less intrusive?

Edit 5 October 2017: I purchased Pro and the latest update is requesting I buy Pro! The latest version also has a terrible screen ratio for the PIN. I'm going to uninstall and install a free app! Any chance of a refund? This is perhaps the most frustrating security app I have ever used. It has all the features one would need that the ability to customise is not great. I do not want to be repeatedly asked to delete photos but I cannot switch this feature off. I have upgraded to pro but I continually get reminders to upgrade to Pro so one star removed for that. I would not buy it again

Was a five star app until latest update. Was running on 20 megs of ram in the background, now consuming around 250 megs in the background and thats with reducing most of the apps functionality. It's with regret that with the apps change in directions I will to change mine and unenstall after submitting this heartbreaking review.

why can I not uninstall it from my. phone? even if I disable it, I receive lot of strange messages that it is not running... really annoying............ hate it. I don't have the freedom to use my device as I see fit, and customize it how I want it to be.

While it is fine at the scanning part of its job, it has now become 20MB+ bloatware. Endless notifications even after you disable what you can. The scam features like "clean junk" and "boost ram" don't even tell you what they are blowing away let alone control it. Best avoided in favour of a small anti-virus only app.

It keeps on crashing in background. Every 30 minutes or so i get avg apps not responding popup on my screen. Would love to uninstall this app but its a bloatware and i cant uninstall it.

Well everybody knows this app/program slows down your phone and pc, but what does it really do? Well it cons it's users into thinking they are being protected for one but it can't even manage to thwart a simple web browser pop up from trying to take over your phone, and if it can't stop a pop up that wants to take control of your device how much freedom will this app give to a trojan or worms to run amok on your device lol unbelievable. What a joke... You got me... You got me good.

After reading other reviews I am thinking of changing it I have another security app on my tablet which I have paid for so I might put that one on instead As of October I have been unable to disable this app even though it was pre installed I will keep it but not paying for PRO

I want to uninstall / deactivate but it keeps telling its a device administrator & even when i go there it purposely blocks from disengaging it administrator access!! So from security to being held hostage i want this app off my phone!!! You go to device administration & when you choose to disengage it crashes the administrator page, cant even remove it via google play or directly delete it!!!

Doesn't work with detecting clipboard anymore too many ads not sure AVG works well anymore. Shame used them for many years

Great product recommend it to anyone. Since last up date the only thing I ask is to please put call blocker back the way it was. The new version of call blocker is not user friendly...

Uninstalled due to too many useless and annoying notifications. If I'm paying a subscription I don't expect to be bombarded.

Works great, people just have to learn how to use it, instead of complaining about it. Love the call blocking. The latest update is great. Really like how you can set when and how your apps are locked, great improvement overall

How can I remove this new permanent notification? It's annoying! Please? I hated the update :(

Its a good app. And they have added most awaited feature of unlock apps using fingerprint. But it's a bit slow when you open locked apps and there is noticeable lag with the security prompt.

Recent update horrible. Need to remove permanent notification soon. Using too much space

Used to really like this program until most recent update. Want more money for cleaner, lost all communication with other devices covered and my laptop crashed when installing update

Loved it until recent version which contains adverts. I have paid for this so don't expect to be pestered by ads and requests to install unwanted apps!

Overly bloated and ad ladden. They constantly try to upsell you with extra features or even direct you to install other third party apps/games.

It's pretty good for detectibg viruses and cleaning your phone. But the bad thing is that it is too expensive to get yhe premium one.

After the update my pro subscription is not recognised any more! The app is now trying to force me to buy it again!

I loved this app until it wiped out all of my office files. It 'cleaned my junk files' which were not junk. Not happy.

It's OK except removing apps from background. It removes my bloody ringtones as well so I've turned the app remover off.

I've purchased an annual subscription on this August, after several updates, your app always prompt me to upgrade to pro version again, then I tried to restore my purchase, but still see ads and the "upgrade" at the screen corners, could you please help fix it?

Seriously you guys messed up the app Its lagging & hanging so much not even responsing to touch

Really Useful app, gives peace of mind. Doesn't fully clean the cache since last update, attempts to, but fails to.

Extremely user friendly, while maintaining a free service ran with non intrusive adds. I haven't noticed anything a miss, hopefully that means it's doing as advertised. For a free virus scan it sure offers some fantastic features, extremely useful.