Tired of VPN popups. What alternative AV?

I’ve had enough of the unstoppable Secureline VPN popups, and I’m going to uninstall Avast after 10+ years of use.

What alternatives might you suggest to replace Avast AV?

Thanks

I’d suggest a custom installation of Avast without the VPN (SecureLine).

Just to add to Asyn’s suggestion you might try removing Secureline component and any others not wanted:
Change, add, or remove individual program components
https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB96#artTitle

My custom install is pretty naked.

Even one of those has gone after testing ‘Home Network Security.’

I’ve said this in the past but it’s worth saying again.
I really like the versatility and options available to “install or NOT install” individual components/modules within the program.
This versatility is not offered in many security programs I’m aware of. :slight_smile:

Edit

Well, therein lies the rub. I didn’t install VPN Securline but I still keep getting the popups every few min.

One workable option seems to be to set the duration of the popup to 1 second duration.

As has been explained a lot of times, you can disable the pop-ups in the paid versions or you can set the free version to gaming/silent mode (not advised since you will also not get any important notices)

Post a screenshot.

Getting a popup on this kind of frequency is certainly an anomaly and why a screenshot will help us understand where the popup is coming from.

If this is an ad style popup then the duration change ‘should make no difference’ as that style of ad popup isn’t on the list of popup options and timings. What Popup duration did you reduce ?

Hopefully you can see the request for a screenshot will be very useful.

You’re correct. The popup timer does not affect the timing of the nag ads.

I’ve upgraded to the latest version and see that I now additionally get an ad to install Chrome. We’ll see if this adds to the VPN Secureline nag ad, or is just a one time thing.

Will try and snag the next popup and post.

When you upgraded did you remove the VPN element in the custom install