I’m getting really tired of all the paid upgrade pop-ups I’ve been getting lately. Every couple of days, there seems to be some special offer that they want me to buy. And to make it worse, the pop-ups don’t abide by the rules set for the regular system pop-ups; they don’t go away on their own if I ignore them.
I am well aware of the pro version, and have had ample opportunity to purchase it. I am reminded whenever my free license runs out. I have the banner in the options dialogue when I change settings or run manual scans. Please tell me that there’s some way I can convince the program to back the heck off, or I may not want the FREE version any more.
The latest pop-up was for a new free protection for your Android ready to download. There is a x to close that message in the right hand corner.
Apart form the occasional statistical pop-up I have not seen much annoying lately. Only because selling their paid version avast can run their free version for the masses. And then again some start to be easily irritated. Count your blessings when looking at numerous browser tracking cookies, but then you hear no one about that,
I’ve used Avast for more than six years, but it’s only been the last six months that I’ve been getting this many “please buy the pro version” pop-ups. I don’t deny that it is very effective, but it’s also becoming quite badgering.
So yes, congratulations. The free version is getting closer to driving me away than to making a purchase.
Ditto. Not impressed by the “Buy this wonderful product you don’t want!” pitch. I -would- pay for a slim, lean, bloat-free AV program. Had AVG for years until they bloated it up by adding so many features that it was checking so see if we had toilet paper in the linen closet.
Avast is bloating up too but they have made it relatively easy to disable any feature you don’t want… It’s the darned virus update balloon that annoys the heck outta me - there seems to be no way to disable that one & changing the time to zero seconds just means it will pop up and stay there until you ‘x’ it out. (Sure - someone will pop up with a "it’s easy! just follow these ten hidden steps and … I want one step - on or off, for each alert balloon.
