I seriously only need what the Avast! free version provides. I don’t want “Internet Security”, I just want the anti-malware scanning of files going to/from the file system primarily. In the recent past I had paid for Internet Security for years but found I just deconfigured most of it to suit my needs.
But the Avast free edition pops up ads (for the paid version) quite often. They’re not hard to ignore, but somewhat annoying. That’s of course their purpose; I understand completely.
I’m willing to pay for good software that serves a good function and to reduce annoyance, and I still believe Avast! is actually the best anti-malware solution. So…
If the paid version can be set to pop up NOTHING, I will go ahead and buy again.
Can someone please confirm whether it’s possible to deconfigure ALL Avast! pop-ups in the paid version?
Just to be clear, I don’t mind pop-ups letting me know definitions have been updated, but I would want the ability to see no others, and I’d rather not invoke “gaming” mode.
Sounds like I wouldn’t gain relief from the regular “Christmas special” et. al. pop-ups if I were to buy Avast Pro. Pity.
We are however, still waiting for this intermittent bug to be finally squashed. For me it is a little over 50/50 in getting the correct auto update notification and not the screwed up one. So for now I have simply disabled the auto update notification on this XP Pro system (my main system) and left it enabled on my win7 netbook, to monitor its actions.
And, honestly, as a paying user, I don´t want to lose the autoupdate notification or any other important notifications.
And I also don´t have alternative ways to monitor the actions on my system.
But this is me. It doesnt necessarily apply to the OP.
well since I disabled the auto update notifications, I haven’t had a single popup; whilst that was only changed last night, it has worked so far. On my win7 netbook I left enabled (for testing purposes) and I have received popups other than the update notification.
I completely agree, it is which is the lessor of two evils getting the popups or being notified of the auto updates. With the new streaming updates in avast 9.0 the reliance on the regular VPS updates is not so critical. So in that case would be the update notification. The other notifications would be unaffected by disabling the auto update notification popups.
Obviously the bug being squashed is what everyone wants.
I’m of a mind with flimawpi2014. I’d like to see serious information, not sales pop-ups, and I’d be willing to pay for that. I’d be a bit miffed if I got sales ads with the paid version.
Just to be clear…
IF this current bug is fixed, will only those using the paid version be relieved from seeing sales ads?
Meanwhile I’ll deconfigure the auto-update notifications as DavidR has suggested - thank you.
As an avast user like yourself, I can’t speculate as to what will happen once this bug finally gets squashed. But I would like to hope that would be the case, ads only on the free version. But for me the bigger problem is the duration settings on these ads/tips popups doesn’t comply with the duration settings.
This “bug” as you call it has been in place now for a number of versions and Avast have been aware of it for quite a long time, including right through the last beta.
On the one hand, it doesn’t really affect the ability of the software to do it’s core task, and if it had only appeared in one version or release would have been of minor importance.
But because it has dragged on for so long, it has assumed much greater significance. One has only to look at the number of posts it keeps turning up in.
If it is just a “bug” then one has to wonder why it has taken so long without a resolution of the issue. Is it in fact a structural design shortcoming that would require a significant amount of recoding to resolve, and hence is being put on the back burner?
Whatever the actual cause it is a quality control issue that now reflects badly on the quality of the product and its developers.
On machines with 30-day trial of avast! Professional or AIS , I routinely enable Silent/Gaming mode (I can monitor status from ‘avast! Account’) and disable ‘Community Features’, etc.
No popups of any kind AFAIK.
With all these posts, and people asking legitimate questions concerning the paid version, it is rather curious that someone from Avast doesn’t make some kind of official statement that can others can be referred to if nothing else. Why let this continue to build?
I appreciate everyone’s input, but from where I sit very little useful information has been provided here so far. Some say there’s a bug, others say that even the paid version does this, and still others suggest a fix that doesn’t really work.
No official appears to have stated anything one way or another, though even that’s a bit vague… Tech, do YOU work for Avast!?
Thanks. I WAS being a bit dense. The setting indeed appears to be in the Update section.
However, the setting (unchecking Show notification box after automatic update) WILL NOT STICK. Whenever I go back into that dialog it’s checked again. So… Sigh. :-\ Is this something I should expect of the free version?
To say that the Avast! configuration dialogs are a nightmarish mess to navigate would be kind. For one thing, a product with SO many settings is a VERY good example of why the new big-font lots-of-whitespace look is just wrong.
What has gone wrong at Avast! lately? I’m starting to wonder whether the protection afforded by this tool could be as compromised as the UI.
