I am in Wigan but the Avast irritants inform me that I am in Dagenham. How can anyone take Avast seriously on this evidence? Nor do I want irritating ‘welcome’ gifts. Is there a ‘pissing users off’ department within the Avast organisation? It is all very well to inform users of the advantages of paid for features but Avast does it in such a way as to undermine its credibility.
Yes, it’s called marketing. ;D
The hope is, if you through enough cr4p at the wall some of it will stick, but it still stinks.
I’m running NordVPN, so my recognizable IP is anywhere I want it to be. I’ve used Avast for years, I’m a high end builder and send it out with my machines for my clients’ sake. Or AVG Free, McAfee Free, etc. They all do the same thing with marketing. Either ignore them or buy one. I’ve got 3 machines always running, McAfee on one, Bitdefender another and Kaspersky on the third. All paid, but they still want you to upgrade occasionally. I’ve gotten rid of whoever bothers me the most, Norton and AVG for certain and for good. There is almost NO DIFFERENCE in the level of AV protection between free and unpaid on ANY. Just the bells and whistles on other things they offer. Avast tells me they show me where they know I used to live. Then, they show my IP as they see it to “warn” me that I might be at risk…1400 miles away in today’s case. Ignore them or get rid of them.
surreptitiously … one could always implement only windows-defender (and malwarebytes) … flipping the bird to all the avi[/i] crap out here on the 'net.
Methinks it’s only a minor irritant and a small price to pay for what they’re giving you. As the other person stated, buy it or ignore it.
Avast is my indisputable favourite anti-malware product. The ‘irritants’ always arrive unexpectedly when I am likely busily concentrating on more personally important things. They are a distraction but more seriously make it more probable that other ‘messages’ and warnings from scammers might be taken seriously in a moment of inattention. Such popups could also be caused by malware and by making them routine, Avast is putting us all at risk of dropping our guard.
At the very least, Avast is crying Wolf!
Hi, it has been forwarded and the VPN ad is being discussed internally now.
But basically, you’ve to expect some ads in the free version now and then. 
It has gone well past the ‘now and then’ it has got to the pain in the backside stage now.
This in all honesty is a total turn off and there is absolutely no way I would purchase anything promoted (fear factor) in this way. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks in this way.
Hi Dave, please join the discussion on Slack, your input would be most welcome…!! 
I think you know my feelings on slack.
Yep. 
But why not just go and try it - you can always leave.
For me the issue isn’t if I would like it or not, but time and the fact that much of what is discussed is outside of the ‘support’ forums and can’t be discussed within the forums.
OK, no problem Dave. That’s the end of my efforts to convince you.
Not really. Many times information from there is shared in this forum.
We all also need to make our own decisions.
Hey,
@loungehake
If you prefer to have next to no nags, right-click the Tray icon and choose Silent Mode. It used to be the Gaming Mode so it wouldn’t popup during playing. It won’t annoy you much after that, but it won’t advise you about program updates either… you’ll have to remember to check thing once in a while.
The Gaming Mode is why I use Avast.
Also, when installing Avast, I click “Customize” and uncheck all the useless stuff and keep only the File and Web shields. With less stuff running, I might be mistaking here, but I think it also pops up a lot less.
As for the region or city discrepancy, I understand that Wigan is quite far from Dagenham… the other end of the place, it usually relates to how your ISP, or its own provider(s) is(are) set up. For me, in Quebec, it shows the one city over. I wouldn’t bother about it.
What you have to bother about is the No Life and Brain Sucked Avast Disciples. They have nothing to do except to sit in front of their screens, wait for messages and see which one of then can beat the other at answering first. You can spot them quite easily, they’re the one with forty, sixty… eighty thousand posts! No life I tell you. What’s funniest, is on this 15 posts thread, there’s only 5 posts from users and 10 from the Lifeless… just talking to themselves and supplying no solution to your issue.
Shut the popups by setting the thing to Silent Mode.
HF
Silent mode may be an answer for you but certainly not for everyone. Silent mode also silences messages you may want to know about.