Amen to the other posts on this subject. Thank you for the post suggesting how to turn off the ads. I am compelled to be here because I believe Avast is getting obnoxious. I run a monitor program watching for activity on my Windows 7 startup folder among other things and it is notifying me that Avast is placing a new item in it on the average of once a day. I can’t imaging what it’s doing, but I don’t like it and this is something that is relatively new. In a 1 hour browsing session today, I received the same popup message from Avast offering to speed up my PC 3 or 4 times. Avast is making me regret purchasing a 3 year, 3 PC license. I used to like it because I believed it was silently protecting my PC in the background without a big performance hit. Now, I’m not so sure that’s the case. It spends an inordinate amount of time scanning a file I’m using to install a program while I’m waiting for it. This is something I’ve had residing on my hard drive for years.