Annoying Christmas Ad and popups on Avast Internet Security

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Hi,

There is a big Christmas ad on the main (home) Avast window and a smaller one that keeps popping up.

Can anyone help me get rid of those? I´ve tried everything i can imagine, but nothing works.

As I´ve paid for a license, Avast should´ve asked me if I wanted to see them, and not simply force me to do so.

I need to be able to stop all ads and not lose the other alerts and popups related to threats,

thanks.

2

Not seeing any Christmas advert on the main (home) Avast GUI screen here. Any chance you could post a screen shot.

3

Yeah a screenshot would be good as I haven’t seen any Christmas ads either - in fact I never see any ads … I am feeling left out. :frowning:

4

Are you sure it’s not a VPS update? There’s a bug that instead of an update notification, a random ad appears.

5

Hello,

+1

here is a screenshot.

On a paid Version this is unacceptable.

Greetings
Christian

6

Now that’s strange… I’ve never seen an ad in the paid version on the UI. :o

7

And here is the popup

8

Yes, but that’s an obvious pop up. The OP specifically talks about “a big Christmas ad on the main Avast window”

9

Well, the popup could be specific or not… it’s still a bug.

10

Hi,

have you seen my first post. I think that’s big.

Greetings
Christian

11

Yep, that is certainly a big Christmas advert on the main page. Maybe what one gets in that area depends on which country you are in.

12

Hi,

maybe. But I have paid for the program and I want to decide if I see advertising.

Greetings
Christian

13

Ah, my mistake. Misread it and just saw the screenshot. That being said, I’ve never seen ads on a paid version on the UI.

14

Well, I have avast pro (2014.9.0.2010) and also get the pop-ups as well as the Christmas offer in the main gui :frowning:
And I really don’t want either of them.
Lately it looks like avast is “pushing” paid things to earn (more) money.

15

Try going to settings → appearance → scroll down to “community features” and disable them both.

I’m not seeing any ads (or recommendations as Avast calls them) on my home screen since I did this.
Strange IS users should disable ads… a paid product, unless you partake in the recommendation program.

16

Aren’t these disabled by default in the paid versions? I thought they were enabled by default only in the free versions…

17

propheticus, in my opinion it should be disabled by default for paying customers.

edit:
I disabled those options, rebooted and I still see the Christmass offer in the main screen :-\

18

I agree. But I had to disable them in the IS version, they were enabled by default. Ads in a paid product…kinda strange.

19

Hi,

I´ve done that. It didnt work.

Actually I had already unchecked the following:

Appearance → Popup security reports
welcome message
community features

General → avast account status: disconnected
participate in the avast community

Nothing works.

thanks.

20

Tried rebooting?