Yes i am getting this ad pop up every time i boot up on the computer when the virus database is updated with white box popup with loudhailer symbol as shown in this post instead of the normal green popup box just latley. On Avast 8 free!. IS THIS NORMAL AVAST TEAM??? OR HAS SOME MALWARE CRIPPLED AVAST?
Virus scan on computer is fine
Your point of view on the avira pop up is incorrect.
When did you try avira last?
Thanks.
here we go again…not even 24 hours later… soon as i log in
also, I suggest everyone check their versions cos latest version of Avast does not come with google toolbar lol… sounds to me like some people are using older versions
http://i.imgur.com/u2Q92aZ.jpg
3 adverts in less than 18 hours!!!
at least Avira is just once every 2 days and its not a full screen advert either…its a tray popup like these… Avira has better detection and less false positives than Avast… see my previous posts for proof
Just check my signature and you will see my avast version is the latest as it would be for the majority of regular/frequent members/posters on the forum.
im just going of someone saying they installed “google toolbar” which doesnt come with Avast V8…?
whats your opinion on the adverts I have gotten then? cant someone from Avast comment on this? - everytime I get one I will post up a screenshot which includes the date and time so you can see the frequency, but so far ive had 3 in less than 24 hours (or 2 if you dont want to include the chrome plugin one which probably wouldnt be fair too…)
I honestly don’t know why you are getting repetitive pop-ups (but according to your images they are all different), it sounds more like some form of corruption in the program.
I have seen one of them about getting AIS for free, but only once. Me I don’t get excited about them I have the auto update notification pop-up dialled down to 1 second duration (as it also has audio notice of update) and it is this pop-up that these are piggybacked to. So I just let then pop back down again after a second.
Ive reinstalled the program twice and removed it using avast removal tool - I cant imagine it being any sort of program corruption?
Iam surprised the advert disappears after 1 second if you dial the “update” timer down to 1 second as they are not related? if anything it would be the ‘info’ popup - those popups are just whats going on within the program, nothing to do with offering upgrades to AIS - i further proved this by using the “display last popup” option after an advert has appeared, it only shows the last “info” popup…I would imagine if they were tied in then using the “show last popup” option would show the adverts too…?
im not going to dial it down to 1 second just in case it does work because i need them to stay there long enough for me to run Share-X to take a picture
is there anyway of getting someone from Avast to comment as to why some people arent getting any… some people are getting them occasionally and some are getting them all the time?
I told you why they are related the piggyback on the auto update triggers it and effectively you only see the secondary popup not the update notification popup.
Im sorry , no offence intended but I’m struggling to make sense of your post, it seems to be lacking commas to break it down…
you never told me “why they are related”, you just said “they are related”
it sounds to me like your on about the adverts that are like the green update popup - ive seen them before, they are an extension of the update popup so probably would disappear after 1 second if the ‘update’ popup is set to do so… but thats not the popups Iam getting and you can see from my screenshots above, the ones I think your on about are like these ones below (from google images) but would have something like ‘upgrade to AIS’ instead of ‘tips for google chrome’
Isn’t this topic about the adverts, I give up.
yes it is… what is your point here?
Iam sorry but your the one who’s not making much sense lol…
you said:
…“I told you why they are related the piggyback on the auto update triggers it and effectively you only see the secondary popup not the update notification popup.”
now read that…tell me it makes sense? I think its missing pronunciation lol…
so I tried my best to try and understand what you were saying…
you say “I told you why they are related” - no you didnt? WHY are they related then?.. you simply said the adverts ARE related!
I personally dont think changing the “update” timer to 1 second will stop the adverts Iam getting from displaying longer than 1 second… I dont think they are related at all and ive explained why I think so in my post above - just like when you said “click on ‘show last popup’ and take a screenshot” when in fact doing so only shows the last INFORMATIVE popup and not an ADVERT as the two are separate entities, surely if they were “related” then clicking “show last popup” would show the advert too…when it doesnt!
see image below, “update notifications are displayed to show you the program has update” (in a green popup) …doesnt say anything about displaying adverts in a grey popup
IMO they are totally seperate and can not be controlled in anyway - the “popups” you speak of are update notifications that are usually extended to include other information like the screenshot in my previous post.
soon as I logged in today @ 13:42 - another popup
no more popups since I emailed AVAST directly asking about it…very strange? - they may have used my email address to identify my Avast account and done something via that… I have only had the green update popup since the last advert above… today I got this (which is exactly what I was on about in my previous messages…the adverts that come inside an ‘update’ popup
Detection rate tests are nonsense in my opinion…see here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=127472.msg953929#msg953929
now compare avast with avira…rather avira has big pop ads,buggy UI etc…and avast only small ads included in update pop up.
C;mon,does it take that much time to click X. :
Avira doesnt have a big popup lol…catch up!
Avira much better at detecting viruses and has far less ‘false positives’ than Avast - wow RWT tests 500 malicious URL’s… there are millions!!..
Agreed.
Avira has NO pop ups after an update.
Avast is slowly becoming a haven for advertisements and in your face pop ups.
If you have nothing good to say, Why not do the next best thing and say nothing ???
;D Best quote by far, perhaps have that in your sig
Maybe practicing what we preach would be more suitable… :o :
Nothing to do with this topic I know but I like this…
My sig on another forum is "Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt!!