Hi all,
every so often, a popup appears shortly after system startup, with avast! telling me
about the latest and greatest offering.
If I don’t do anything, it stays on the screen for about 30 seconds.
I would like to know if I can reduce the time it’s visible, of suppress it
altogether. This is the kind of thing I mean:
yes you can adjust popup time… see under settings button
Do you mean this? Or is there somewhere else I should be looking?
If it’s here, the amount of seconds are already low, but still the popups
that appear after startup are on the screen for 30 seconds…
hmmm…maybe these ads are not covered by those settings 
It’s not a biggie … it’s not that aggressive, I can close it easily - perhaps a reasonable price for the free avast!
However, if I were using the paid version and the same situation existed, I’d be a little unhappy.
If you don’t want to see the popup…see screenshot. Untick Grimefighter.
I don’t have anything in tools at all, it’s empty.
This could be because I did a custom install and de-selected everything
except the shields.
They aren’t they are piggybacked on to the auto update notification popups. When you see one of these promos/ads popups check the update status of avast and you will find it has just been updated.
I don’t think that will stop these type of promos as they obviously want you to try GrimeFighter whether or not you have the GF interface installed.
I’m not surprised if this is the case. As I mentioned above, I don’t find it too unreasonable while using the free product.
Is Grimefighter just another version of ccleaner, or one of those dubious products similar to the downloads at speedupmypcforfree.com ?
I don’t believe it bears any resemblance to what ccleaner does.
Grimefighter says this:
"GrimeFighter is PC optimization and cleanup utility designed to remove bloatware and other junk and promises to speed up your computer when you click
'Optimize my PC’ that appears at the bottom on Status window of Avast UI’. "
That sounds very similar to ccleaner. Is Grimefighter aimed at complete PC novices?
I honestly don’t believe ccleaner is an Optimisation application, just what the ccleaner name was (Cr4pCleaner).
I think the name GrimeFighter doesn’t lend itself to what it actually does and makes it looks like various junk/cr4p removers.
Most of these PC Optimisers are aimed at novice users, those who aren’t novices are unlikely to even use these tools and many (myself included) consider them of little use (I’m trying to be polite). The thing that I don’t like in these tools and GF is that they don’t list exactly what it is they have found in detail, nor do they give a check box to exclude the entry from removal.
DavidR,
this is my point - I can’t believe any non-novice user would even install this product, let alone run it and have it perform some mysterious “optimization”.