Thanks so much for responding. I will give them the link as well as providing the rest of the details of what happened. And thanks very much for the clean uninstall. I maintain computers and laptops for seniors on a fixed income and I also do this free of charge to them. None of my clients are “power users” so other than clicking off notifications I leave most everything as is but this Avast one has really been invasive despite my clicking off all notifications.

I didn’t find out about it until after he paid almost $300 in tech support and the one year of maintenance package. The technician also “cleaned up” his computer to make it work faster but apparently too much was cleaned up because some of it was left inoperable.