TotalAV vs Spybot: Which antivirus is better in 2022?

I have tried Totalav and must say that there are plenty of pros and cons for each user. It depends on what you expect from this software for this money. I think this is good antivirus software for personal use. Of course, you have to keep an eye on your subscription renewal date if you don't want to be charged more than $100 for the 2nd year. And my tip is to make sure you don't have any other antivirus before TotalAV installation, it may cause a conflict (like it was in my case). I think the price of $29 for the 1st year is fair enough. After the first year of using you can clearly decide if you want to renew. I am giving it 4-star rating only for much higher price for the 2nd year subscription.

They have terrible customer service and even worse autorenewal policy where the cost increases six/seven folds. 1st year £24, 2nd year £134. My email went to my junk box so missed the notification so ended up paying ridiculous increase. Most consumer reviews complain about the same. Also independent reviews give them a 3 star at most. Best to look elsewhere.

this is the best tool. bitdefender total security is far worse.

The same thing happened to me but I uninstalled it and everything went back to normal.

So I got this in 2018, it did remove some spyware, but not all. Well last week I kept trying to play fallout 4 and was getting really bad frame rates. Did everything trying to fix it. Finally I went into thr game, and when it began to lag as usual, I brought up task maskmanager. The only item even remotely showing that it was using the disk was avast. Disk usage was at 100% but avast was using only 0.4mb. Weird I know. So I brought it up to see what it was doing, and it was in silent mode so as to not interfere with gaming. But then it popped a warning that some programs were slowing my machine. Opened that and only 3 things showed. Adobe reader, steam and spybot, that had the biggest bar of the 3. So I went back to task manager, still claimed spybot was using nothing. But I ended task on both its processes anyways, and bam! Disk usage dropped from 100% to just 7%. This program became the very thing it claimed to combat, and was being underhanded in hiding the fact that it was using 93% of the disk! I will never use this ever again