New AVG Free lacking features, first scan incredibly slow

Hello Zoe,
I regret for the inconvenience caused. I would like to inform you that the first scan of AVG Free Antivirus takes some time to complete. This latest version contains many new features and you can view the user manual by going to AVG->Menu->Help. However, I will take your feedback and escalate to our developers. They will work on it in upcoming updates.
Thank you.

I've been a user of AVG Free for many years and always been very impressed.

Today I downloaded the latest version on my partner's notebook and the first scan has now been running for 11 (yes, eleven) hours and is only at 64%.
I'm very disappointed to see that there's no option to pause the scan (which is a horrendous consumer of the notebook's ability to perform another task while the scan is running) and using the programme is not consumer friendly.
I have used the paid AVG version on another computer in the past but this experience with the new Free version has REALLY put me off.
Paying customer lost.

Hello Zoe,
I regret for the inconvenience caused. I would like to inform you that the first scan of AVG Free Antivirus takes some time to complete. This latest version contains many new features and you can view the user manual by going to AVG->Menu->Help. However, I will take your feedback and escalate to our developers. They will work on it in upcoming updates.
Thank you.