I have a (virtual) machine with Avast Free installed. It is set to Silent Mode.
Silent mode description: “Blocks all pop-ups, alerts, and messages”
And still Avast manages to show me this alert when browsing the internet, front and center!
It isn’t even an actual alert, but the usual upselling nonsense spiel.
Why Avast? Why do you lie about what Silent Mode does? Why do you not respect user preferences?
This isn’t an Avast Alert as such, pointing out potential weaknesses that it has a paid solution for.
Give it the Limited Mode treatment as Silent doesn’t cover this.
Pop-up offers fall under all pop-ups. Silent Mode does cover this. It’s in the exact wording.
I think the clue is in the wording of Limited Mode
"Shows Alerts when a malicious attack is detected, but "**
As I mentioned.
Read the Text for Limited Mode in the image and thas specifically mentions “blocks any pop-up offers”. Which is an offer.
Your system your choice.
Silent Mode should suppress all messages. Of whatever type. That is what it says it does. And it doesn’t.
The alert isn’t for an attack. It is just an ad with all the follow up screens to sell Premium.
Clearly that isn’t working for you, I will end here, symantics isn’t working, try the suggestion.
Limited Mode isn’t an option on this machine. Avast needs to actually respect their own promises.
