How to stop Avast from bullsitting me all the time?

system · 2017-11-12T00:47:58.000Z

Every time I log into my bank, Avast reminds me that it wants to protect my sensitive information from evil hackers. Every time I’m trying to browse questionable websites (privately), Avast reminds me that “anybody can see what I do online” and that I should upgrade to some expensive package.

Here are a few facts:

[ol]- I’m an independent Internet security researcher

I am very familiar with the nature of online threats
These popups are complete unfounded bullshit that are trying to lie straight to my face so that I will pay for Avast
The only thing violating my privacy in these instances is, ironically, Avast - my antivirus software[/ol]

This should be illegal. But it’s not. So can it be turned off?

Asyn · 2017-11-12T04:43:14.000Z

→ https://support.avast.com/article/96/ (Add/Remove components)

bob3160 · 2017-11-12T13:27:17.000Z

You turn it off by selecting the X in the upper right hand corner or, wait till the popup disappears.
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=204972.0

system · 2017-11-13T09:05:14.000Z

The reply is the worst I could expect, considering the poster’s aggravation. Just clicking the top right of window doesn’t say anything about the intrusiveness of AVAST in this person’s gripe. There are so many people who are aggravated, and while I agree that software companies need to charge for the software to stay in business, support the programmers, and everything else, there’s STILL such a thing as overly-done with the intrusiveness and getting on people’s nerves. No one likes to see something over-done. Your answer did nothing, other than to say, live with it. Isn’t it a subject now that people are fed up and want a stop, to this nonsense? This over-driven desire could be done very much less, but where people would still upgrade. Such as when a person decides on some specific day that they decided I like ‘this’ feature that I find myself clicking on and I believe it would be worth it to pay for an upgrade. In other words, when people see a newer feature available and they like it enough, they could very well pay for it. Companies have room still to make their software more people friendly, and still be getting upgrades without all the stupid over and over, endless reminders for the supposed need to upgrade.

system · 2017-11-13T09:08:43.000Z

dawncake post:1:

[ol]- I’m an independent Internet security researcher

I am very familiar with the nature of online threats[/ol]

If it is true, you shouldn’t be here asking the question " How to stop Avast from bullsitting me all the time?"

bob3160 · 2017-11-13T13:43:44.000Z

plb4333 post:4:

The reply is the worst I could expect, considering the poster’s aggravation. Just clicking the top right of window doesn’t say anything about the intrusiveness of AVAST in this person’s gripe. There are so many people who are aggravated, and while I agree that software companies need to charge for the software to stay in business, support the programmers, and everything else, there’s STILL such a thing as overly-done with the intrusiveness and getting on people’s nerves. No one likes to see something over-done. Your answer did nothing, other than to say, live with it. Isn’t it a subject now that people are fed up and want a stop, to this nonsense? This over-driven desire could be done very much less, but where people would still upgrade. Such as when a person decides on some specific day that they decided I like ‘this’ feature that I find myself clicking on and I believe it would be worth it to pay for an upgrade. In other words, when people see a newer feature available and they like it enough, they could very well pay for it. Companies have room still to make their software more people friendly, and still be getting upgrades without all the stupid over and over, endless reminders for the supposed need to upgrade.

It was an honest answer even if it wasn’t the answer you would have liked. I also didn’t say I was happy with the fact. The video should have told you that I’m not happy. That still doesn’t change the facts. It also doesn’t change the fact that I’m getting great protection for free.

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