is it me? or is Avast Free worse than Avira for nag “upgrade to pro” pop ups? - I always chose avast to be free of Avira’s (once every 2 days) upgrade to pro popup - well i have not been using Avast for a while and decided to install it last night… in last hour or so it has popped up TWICE asking me if I want to upgrade to Internet Security!!
is there anyway of turning this off? or do I have to get shot of it?
thanks
did you register your avast free…or are you running it in trail mode?
hi
thanks for quick reply.
its registered with 365 days remaining
Avast is much better on their suggestions since they’re doing just a tiny slideup in the free version.
Avira covers the entire screen which, to me, is unacceptable.
I havent had any today so far… fingers crossed
yes Avira’s pop up is a pain… plus they repair and circumvention at each update!! ive tried all methods and none stick
pffft - just 5 minutes after typing the above post i got the popup!!
Can you attach a screenshot of the popup are you talking about ?
I haven’t seen any upgrade popups for some considerable time.
its defo avast lol… latest version, this time i had Private Firewall installed which notified me of Avast Setup running, when I allowed it the popup appeared
it asking me if I want to updgrade to Internet Security and it looks like its going to be every 24 hours it will come because it was almost to the minute 24 hours earlier when i got the last one…
its a popup above the clock in the tray…
having googled it and coming back to a post in this forum i found the following which is supposed to stop them from coming (I also live in UK and have chrome browser addon installed) - unchecking ‘Show Avast Recommendation features’ …do you know if this works?
Neither of those options will stop the recommendation popup, there unrelated.
I just had the ad popup myself for the chance to win Avast security suite for free :).
If your running the free version then you have to expect some ad’s, best option is to set the limit there displayed to minimal.
well according to the post I got it from some users report no longer seeing the ad(s) after unchecking that option…
the options (to make minimal) you talk about are for non-ad popups (Info, Update, Warning, Alert) - the ad popus look nothing like those
also, every 24 hours is a bit much IMO and will only serve to drive people away from free avast.
Well that info is wrong 
I uncheck those options on all installs I do and they have no effect on the advertising of avast paid products, I set the Info and Update popups to 5 seconds.
oh well - looks like I will be switching to Comodo Internet Security or Outpost Internet Security
the popup is similar to this one, every 24 hours so far…
That your choice, I myself don’t mind a few Ad’s for the sake of free protection that is better than most of the paid suites.
if i was gunna have to put up with popups then I would stay with Avira as it has much better detection rates, at least their popup is every 48 hours and not 24…
cant believe Avast have started doing this…
Very funny that the screen shot you posted is from a year ago. Right click on the system tray icon and select “show last pop up”. Paste a screen shot here. Thanks.
Avira’s high detection rates are equal to there high level of false positives and as mentioned earlier there ad’s take up the whole screen while avasts are only in the bottom corner which you can set to a minimal time of 1 second.
I also don’t get ad’s at the rate at which you say there appearing for you, lucky if there every 2 or 3 days for me but being that there set to show for such a short time I don’t even notice them.
This certainly isn’t the norm or there would be lots more posts about it.
That is why we are asking questions as we as avast users also aren’t seeing this.
the screenshot was from google to show what the popup was like… I thought that was obvious?? i wasnt trying to pass it off as one of my own…
I have since got rid of Avast for now so can not show you one, when I did use the “show last popup” it only shows the avast informative popups and not the adverts.
edit: also Avira’s false positives are old news, check latest benchmarks - plus i would rather have something flagged for me to inspect than let it get through…
AVAST get more FP’s than AVIRA
http://i.imgur.com/twsccmB.jpg
all I can say is I have an account at Avast , was signed in on the program . had chrome browser extension installed… and live in UK …and I got ads, the same ad twice in quick succession shortly after install, then that ad again almost dead on 24 hours later
Ive seen posts from other users with same issue… not many but there are some
edit2: tell you what, I will reinstall it and leave it running a few days and post up every time it displays the ad with a screenshot
edit3:
there you go , just minutes after install
…please see my above email for screenshot of advert and other info…
I just got this popup too even though the plugin is installed, it did this on the previous Avast install too = ive tried uninstalling the plugin and installing it via Avast but it still Appears as “install” under options… a bug perhaps?
This is very odd. No one has every complained like this. I have had Avast installed for along time and I never get ANY upgrade pop ups. And yes I have Avast Free. I just did a test on my old machine which I use to test malware. No VM. A live machine I picked up for $50. Nothing installed at all. Just Windows. Installed Avast. Unechecked Google Toolbar and Chrome…Guess what. No Chrome. No Google Toolbar. No Upgrade Ads. Dont know what to tell you. I also went ahead and installed Chrome after then went into the Chrome store and added the Avast extension. No problems there either.