Avast is adding a tag to my Gmail

[Asyn]

It’s already fixed in the latest beta: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=15.0

[system]

@Eddy post:8

-1

• It happened with the users consent.
• It is not a pain to change the setting at all.
• It has nothing to do with a persons privacy at all. No private details are revealed.
  - It is not a advertisement, just a simple line saying the mail has been scanned and no malicious things are found in it.

Do not blame the tree while you are the one that drove the car when you hit it.

Wrong.
It’s clearly an advertisement that says specifically:
“This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast.” with a linked logo and URL to Avast’s site.
The logo itself is a track-able image served by avast:
https://ipmcdn.avast.com=/images/logo-avast-v1.png

There’s posts from 2014 that suggest they’ve been doing this for the free version all along.
Being a PAYING CUSTOMER, I’m extremely angry that this was ‘accidentally’ enabled on the latest paid update.

[system]

@Asyn post:21

It’s already fixed in the latest beta: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=15.0

Yeah… thanks, but… ahhhhh… no.

I’m not beta testing for Avast. Especially after this debacle.

[Asyn]

Well, the beta is stable, but that’s up to you.

[Eddy]

I attempted to edit the .INI file

There was and is no reason at all to change the ini file manually. Simply making a change in the settings through the GUI will do the job.

I then uninstalled an reinstalled AVAST with the Mail Shield feature

There was no need to uninstall avast. You could have added the mail shield through control panel.

Not to mention the fact that 'auto-update' was removed for existing subscribers

auto-update has never been removed.