What must I do do keep from receiving those annoying pop-up billboards advertising Avast 5 that I receive several times daily?
I don’t intend to upgrade from 4.7 now. My firewall is also upgrading at present and I don’t intend to do both at the same time until Avast 5 generates fewer complaints and I’m sure the firewall is stable. I would hate to go to another A/V program just to stop popups.
I don't intend to upgrade from 4.7If you are on 4.7 then you are way behind, as 4.8 have been out for years......
I would hate to go to another A/V program just to stop popups.so you can install another A/V but not avast 5....... ???
Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0.545 http://filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/
What type of popup’s are you talking? Because I’m using avast v5 free and I don’t see any pop up, only from the av saying that the avast have updated their db.
he’s probably getting prompts to upgrade to V5, what he calls pop up ads :
;D
My mistake, I do have 4.8.
so you can install another A/V but not avast 5....... ???
Why is that puzzling? Reading this board leads me to believe that avast 5 is causing no end of bothers for users who have upgraded to it. If I can’t stop the ads any other way, I’ll uninstall Avast altogether and switch to something that respects my decision to remain with what I have at present. If I wanted to upgrade, I would have by now.
he's probably getting prompts to upgrade to V5, what he calls pop up ads ::)
prompts are one thing… full-screen adverts that pop up while I’m composing text are something else altogether… Is there a simple way to stop them that does not involve upgrading?
Why is that puzzling? Reading this board leads me to believe that avast 5 is causing no end of bothers for users who have upgraded to it. If I can't stop the ads any other way, I'll uninstall Avast altogether and switch to something that respects my decision to remain with what I have at present. If I wanted to upgrade, I would have by now.what about all those (the majority) that is running avast 5 without problems, you will not know if you don`t try.
If you browse the forum of Norton / AVG / Panda etc… you will see that no AV is problem free
[b]Proteus wrote:[/b] [i]Prompts are one thing... full-screen adverts that pop up while I'm composing text are something else altogether... Is there a simple way to stop them that does not involve upgrading?[/i]
Not sure what you have your 4.8 version set for, but if you absolutely want to stay on that version, check your program settings under ‘update’ and change the setting to never check for program update. I forget the actual steps as I’m on ver. 5 (and no problems with it BTW).
Hope this helps.
Proteus, support for version 4.8 will end by the end of 2010.
In forums, people complain and ask for help. The others, the majority, are happy avast users
Totally wrong belief…!!! 
asyn
I have had no luck in searching for a solution to pop ups that I am constantly getting.
Avast (v.5) does NOT display any pop-up.
Avira does when updating.
I don’t know AVG.
Assuming you are running only Avast (and not Avira or AVG) and you see pop-ups, I would say there is some spyware or other unwanted program installed on your PC that runs in background. To get rid of the pop-ups you must get rid of the software but it is not Avast.
Unless it is something about Avast 4.x saying you should update to Avast 5. That you should do, I am running it on a PIII from 1998 and no problem.
avast! 5.0 has a overall of better detection,scan and very low on ram. So i recommand you upgrade your anti virus to the 5.0
You can select whether the program and the virus database are updated automatically or manually, or only following notification that an update is available
from avast!
To change the status, you can either click on the current status (e.g. “Database only”) in the avast player screen, or simply open the options menu, select “Program settings”, then “Update (basic)”.
Then just click on the desired status for each of the virus database and the program.
It’s time to people to upgrade… They must force the deliver to end the support of 4.8…
We want the antivirus go further and they can’t lose time with 0,03% of users that can’t upgrade to 5 due to OS support limitation.
Time to move…
+1 (no more to add…!)
asyn
[s]Guys… he’s on v4.7.
Upgrading to 4.8 will probably solve it.[/s]
Also, what you are looking at in the forums is a few people having problems with it. That doesn’t mean the program doesn’t work for everybody. There is no perfect solution. As updates come and go, problems disappear, so you shouldn’t hesitate to upgrade to v5 if you haven’t paid for 4.8 (as in, you have 4.8 Home).
He’s not, please read the whole thread…!
asyn
Sorry, missed one of his posts. So basically my first reply in this thread with the first two sentences removed.
No problem…!
asyn
Avast 4.8 Home Edition installations that are close to expiring (say a few months before expiring) are now getting pop-ups asking the users to upgrade to v5. If you absolutely want to stay with v4.8 (which I don’t think is a good idea as v5 is superior in multiple aspects, including virus detection rates), a way to do it is re-register your v4.8 Home Edition (i.e. requesting a new key and inserting it to the program) - a process which will effectively push the expiration date to June 2011.
http://www.avast.com/registration-free-antivirus.php
Hope this helps,
Vlk