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Well, there are free alternatives to avast!: AVG, Avira, BitDefender, etc., and it has no pop-ups of any sort: It is MSE.
Having said that, you might want to have a look at the diminishing support it is now getting from sites that once recommended it, including Microsoft: http://www.howtogeek.com/173291/goodbye-microsoft-security-essentials-microsoft-now-recommends-you-use-a-third-party-antivirus/ One of the reasons for support over the years was because of no nag pop-ups, and also the least impact on system performance and resources of all a/v’s tested.
For your specific needs, MSE may be exactly what you need. Just be aware, unlike avast!, its’ antivirus engine can be disabled/corrupted when malware enters and attacks your system, and then, when that happens, one has no real-time protection whatsoever following this sort of incident.
It now is a risk one has to take when one runs MSE as their a/v of choice.
Actually, we’re all in the same boat here: All free versions of antivirus programs except MSE have adverts and pop-up windows of one sort or another; some are more intrusive than others, so it is then a case of pick your lesser evil here.
None of us as users create or maintain these a/v softwares, so essentially, what you desire, is in a category of a wish list, as one really cannot change any settings to what they want if that setting is not there. If we had control of design and implementation, that would be another story…
WYSIWYG.