After the recent update, every time I start a PC I receive a notification from Avast saying “Your protection is up and running”.
How do I turn it off permanently? It’s completely useless and annoying.
I turned on Limited mode in Avast’s notifications settings but to no avail.
Check out this topic - https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=327347.0
My last Post - https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=327347.msg1718689#msg1718689
Thanks, DavidR.
Looks like I am not the only annoyed by this new “feature”.
Will uncheck banners and notification center notifications in Windows settings and see how it goes.
If Avast won’t remove it, I’ll probably consider uninstalling Avast and stick to Microsoft Defender Antivirus.
You’re welcome.
It really hasn’t been that much of a hassle for me, on a laptop I don’t often restart the system. And in this case I hardly noticed (excuse the pun) change in the windows notification to indicate a notification.
As far as Avast Notifications settings go, I have the Pop-up Notifications Treatment set to Limited. So I don’t get that much in the way of hassle and no way I would switch to Defender over this, but I have only been using Avast for 20 years.
This does NOTHING. This new popup is stupid and unnecessary. I already see an orange ball in the taskbar. Now I have to clear the stupid notification area after every boot because if I don’t the bell is colored like I have something important in the notification center.
All of which has been covered in the topic link I gave in Reply #1.
I agree.
Although for some reason last two times when I booted my PC I didn’t have this notification. Not sure if this has something to do with Limited Mode in Avast settings or that I disabled banners for Avast in Windows settings. I believe it’s the latter.
Finally Avast had given the possibility of no longer displaying useless notifications to activate new paid features for those who didn’t want them, now a new useless notification appears reminding you that you are protected when in reality there is already a notification in the taskbar. It seems like they do this on purpose to make people uninstall Avast and choose alternative free AVs.
Remove this useless notification!!!
Agree with everyone else. Notifications are for things I need to be notified about. I don’t think anyone wants “Everybody stop what you’re doing and listen to this important announcement. There is nothing wrong.” It’s annoying and it’s waste of time. The security package that cries wolf every time it’s starts working is counterproductive.