I’m not trying to excuse shoddy marketing.
The point is, you weren’t forced, which is what you said.
We all see the same dialogs you did. Once you get to know Avast you start to realize you have to read every dialog more carefully than you’d think you would have to with a security program. Maybe it’s their way of training us for the real world, I don’t know.
Here are a couple of suggestions…
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Run the Add / Remove Programs entry for Avast and choose Change. Uncheck all the tools in the center column that you don’t want. The three shields are of prime importance. The other stuff is fluff.
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If you don’t want the paid version, just uninstall it fully using the Avast_clean tool, reinstall the free version, and watch out in the future for misleading dialogs.
Problems solved.
-Noel