I recall you’ve mentioned in another topic the spinning icon before (when you stated quote: “;… the Avast Taskbar circle revolved and checked each and every new site and email, thus extending my already slow computer to infinity.” LINK TO THAT TOPIC And in that topic I posted "the purpose of Avast is to actually check “each and every new site and email”.
Just to let you know that you can turn that feature off if you want.
To do this go to “Settings” > “Appearance” > uncheck “Animate the icon when scanning”, and as you can see there you can even remove the icon altogether by unchecking “Show Avast tray icon”.
I prefer to see the spinning icon reassuring me that Avast is doing it’s job and when my emails come in (which they do automatically in batches through a notifier) I can see there getting scanned. (it’s a relatively unique feature that in my mind is helpful to the user)
Oh and if you don’t want to receive “release candidate” (RC releases) program software than you can set the PROGRAM “update” setting to either “Manual” or “Ask when an update is available” by going to “Settings” > “Update” and peruse the update settings for “Program”.
One thing no one can complain about in Avast, that is it can’t be said that Avast does not offer the user a vast assortment of options (ad popups the exception unless you pay for a version that is).
