Since the last major upgrade, Avast now pops up annoying ads several times a day, instead of a few times a year as it did before.
Just saw another one, some garbage about “Cyber Monday”.
And several times a day, trying to sell me some VPN service.
Yeah, I use the free version, but there comes a point when this intrusive crap outweighs the service and I will just jump ship, after maybe 10 years of using it and installing it on my friends’ and families’ computers,
I shudder to think that they are now all blaming me for this harassment.
Has Avast been sold to some XXXX who wants to monetise everything to the max to pay off his loans?
If this continues, and I sadly expect it will only get worse, I’ll pull the plug.
First, please use a more mature tone and the need for bad language is not acceptable.
The pop-ups you are referring to are “wrongly” placed. They should be about vps updates.
They come at the right time, they just say the wrong thing.
those ads piss me off and i can’t find the settings to turn them off. i also just saw the same “Cyber Monday” popup. i will also abandon Avast if this continues. i’ve also been using and recommending it for over 10 years.
i abandoned AntiVir for the same reason back in the day…
i absolutely hate SPAM
I have been getting these annoying ads over the vps updates too, facebook security etc. I unticked participate in the avast community box in general settings tab and I have not seen one ad since, just get normal updates now ;D
Unfortunately limiting the duration won’t make a blind bit of difference as one of the symptoms of the screwed up update notifications is the duration function doesn’t work either. Along with the Tip/Ads popup instead of update notification popup and no voice over.
The only way to deal with it as has been mentioned in many topics is:
These tips popups have in the past been piggybacked with the auto update update notification, so the only way to get rid of them would be to disable the auto update notification, which if you want the update notification (when it works correctly) would remove everything.
avastUI > Settings > Update - scroll down to Details and uncheck the ‘Show notification box after automatic update.’
@ Coffee addict
I think this is a happy coincidence as I have had these options unchecked for some considerable time in avast and it doesn’t stop the screwed up auto update bug.
It is spam, by definition. An unsolicited advertisement.
And excuse me for not believing that it’s a bug. It’s obviously designed to deliver ads very efficiently and prominently.
The program updates itself every 4 hours, yet this “bug” has not been addressed. Just more spam delivered instead.
Seems they have a very relaxed attitude to fixing this “bug”.
Obviously Avast controls what ads are delivered. If there was an error they could replace their spam with informational popups explaining the problem instead of more Cyber Monday crap, which just popped up AGAIN.
Anyway, I turned off update notification. Let’s see if that’s sufficient.
Block the program in firewall and get rid of all those annoying ads.
Free does not mean one should be bombarded with ads several times a day! I for one, didn’t experience such annoyance except that stupid pop-up that says ‘loading’ and then disappears ! Also, it doesn’t sound good to complain either because you are using it free! Therefore, either you find a solution of your own to have intrusion free experience or just move on with something else to enjoy the same!
@ AlanHK It is a known bug which should be fixed in the next refresh.
You are not the first to complain about it. There is/was an
entire thread devoted to this one issue. Like I stated before
right pop-up…wrong wording.