Avast injects advertising into Gmail e-mail

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Avast appends some advertising nonsense to my e-mails send via Gmail in Firefox. In spite of me having deactivated Avast Online Security and Avast Safeprice in Firefox.

I am really, really angry about this; it causes me embarrassment.

I have now tried to deactivate the Mailshield but seemingly the behaviour persists.

I have just paid for the software but I have a few days left to get my money back.

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It is not advertisement.
It is saying that the mail is scanned.

As has been explained before, you can disable the notification through the mail shield options.
avast will make the option more clear/easier to find in a future version.

Why the embarrassment ?
Are you embarrassed for trying to protect your system ? :slight_smile:

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Web Shield - Scanning webmail - Insert clean note - see https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=178976.msg1266788#msg1266788.

  • AvastUI > Settings (the cog wheel icon) > Active Protection > Mail Shield > Customize > Behaviour - uncheck any insert notes that are enabled which you don’t want.

  • Also see:

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Well, it’s advertisement because it prominently displays the product name.

It’s embarrassing because it makes me look like (actually be) one of the clowns who announces that they have just sent something from the Xiaomi/iPhone/whatever device. It clutters communication.

Further, injects html-code into my text only e-mail. How stupid is that.

Actually, I find it worrying that it manages to get between something I type into my browser and gets send in encrypted form but I guess that’s what malware can do as well. :frowning:

Thanks DavidR for the clear instruction.

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Well, it's advertisement because it prominently displays the product name.
So you also want everything removed from your car (if you have one) that has the name of the manufacturer on it because you don't want people to know what car you drive?

It is not cluttering communication at all.
It is the same as when you send a letter to someone and mention your name at the bottom.

Ofcourse avast “sits in the middle”.
That is the only way avast (as well as other anti-malware tools) can do their job.

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You’re welcome.