DavidR
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The mere act of creating the topic about it is promotion (a.k.a. advertising a competing product) as it gives it the oxygen of publicity. These forums are very well tracked by the various search engines and this could also inadvertently improve its ranking.
In case you hadn’t bothered to read the General forum description “anything and everything about this board” even with the amount of latitude given by the moderators, since the OT forum was closed.
Since avast pay for these forums promoting competitive products is a bit of a slap in the face.
Why would it be of general interest to avast users who are generally happy with avast, sorry but I don’t agree it is of interest, even less so given their previous track record. There are many AV companies out there all vying for a bigger slice of the market share and the official avast forums isn’t where they should be promoted.
Perhaps your right time to take a holiday, I hope you enjoy your holiday.