how do you stop the thing from poping up when i go to a web site or my mail it covers hafe of it up
Hi…
We’ll need to know a lot more before we can help. 
Can you give us the…
- Operating system (such as Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista.)
- Make and model of computer.
- Exact nature and history of the problem.
Best Regards…
It seems that you’ve changed the avast settings without knowing what you were doing…
This is an option disabled by default. You can turn it off going to the Standard Shield provider settings, Advanced tab an unchecking ‘Show detailed information on action performed’. You can do this for the other providers too.
See http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=26104.msg213436#msg213436
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