i have three pcs in my house with avast installed. On two of them i get the regular vps update message with the voice. But on my machine i’m only getting ads, every time. It’s not really a problem, i’m just wondering why this is happening only on my machine. In addition when i clicked on show last popup today, it showed me the popup ad from 3 days ago, but only once, then it showed the one from today again.
On a side note: The ads would be okay if they would have the same layout as the vps update popup with the blue line on top. But they are only grey and look kind of shady. I’m using the german version of avast and the last two popup ads for the recommendation programm even had different spellings for the german word for recommendation programm (“Empfehlungs-programm” and “Empfehlungsprogramm”). As I said its not really a big problem it just doesn’t look very professional.
Getting the same popup ad after reinstall. I found another thread about this topic (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=143250.0). So obviously its a common problem. To be honest, i don’t care about avast showing me ads. I’m just a little paranoid about the popups potentially delivering malware like other ad servers (see yahoo.com these days). But other than browser ads, i cant block them. So now when i see that on my rig something is different and irregular compared to other machines, my alarm bells go off :
Just want to give you a short feedback. I turned off the community features and two days in a row now i dont get any popup (no definition popup, no ad popup). I do get the virus definition updates. However when i want avast to show me the last popup the button is not greyed out. Clicking on it shows me the ad popup again (See screenshot). So it seems that turning off these features only prevents avast from showing them, but in fact they are there