can i get avast 8 internet security t to stop having a popup window telling me its retrieving information? Every hour or so it shows a poup on the middle of the screen telling me avast is retrieving information. Im on silent gaming mode but it still tells me this every now and again
Is there a way to disable the popup?
A screenshot of the popup might help as it isn’t something that I’m aware of ?
bump
There is no information to work with so bumping won’t do anything, a screenshot of the popup as asked for could help us to help you.
By the time he gets to that “screen” there should be an “avast” icon on the desktop. ???
It appears that avast was not installed properly.
The OP should try a clean install. 
you do realize that the icon on the desktop is just a shortcut that you can delete right? I dont have an Avast icon on my desktop because i deleted it as soon as the installer put it there.
I’m having the SAME problem, and so far there is no information about this anywhere but here. I too have a gaming machine and this popup interferes with my experience. Right now, i have Disabled Avast altogether, using a startup manager, then re-enable it weekly for a scan. But this is not an ideal solution.
i did provide a sreenshot u cant see it, try this link
No couldn’t see the link to that screen shot in your second post, I can see it now.
It looks more like an initialising type issue that doesn’t seem to complete, hence constantly trying.
Try a repair of avast:
Vista, win7 - Control Panel, Programs & Features, uninstall a program, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Uninstall/Change and select Repair, click next and follow.
You may need to reboot after the repair.
thanx david i did that, lets hope it works. Its too early to tell but ill post tomorrow to let u know
Nah, it didnt work, i just saw the notice
Rats, hopefully someone using AIS can shine some light on this.
I have been speaking to a number of other AIS users and they aren’t experiencing this repetitive “Retrieving Information, please wait…” pop-up in AIS.
Given that the repair didn’t work the consensus is that you would be best doing a clean reinstall of avast 8 AIS. Now there is an update build 8.0.1483 out soon, direct link below.
Download the latest version of avast AIS, 8.0.1483 http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/avast_internet_security_setup.exe and save it to your HDD, somewhere you can find it again. Use that when you reinstall.
Download the avast! Uninstall Utility, aswClear.exe find it here and save it to your HDD (it has uninstall tools for all versions).
Update: I have just done an avast program update and for a fraction of a second I saw that pop-up, too quick for me to do a screen capture. But that is along the lines of what I mentioned before in Reply #9 above, this is similar in that I don’t believe this function has stalled and no information is retrieved.
So I think proceeding with the clean reinstall is your preferred option.
yea i did that, so far so good, thanx again
You’re welcome, thanks for the feedback.
Same issue here. Registering offline worked.
And how about stop it popping up every 30 minutes?? It breaks any video game that’s currently playing, and potentially other apps.
What pop-ups are you talking about ?
There shouldn’t be any regular pop-up every 30 minutes, so a screenshot will help determine what it is and what can be done.
The same popup as mentioned previously - http://postimg.org/image/70vcetapd/
It keeps retrying every so often.