Hi guys, sorry to revive this thread but I am having this problem (too-frequent advertising / news / tips pop-ups, no sound on update, timings not working), with the latest version of avast! free (9.0.2008) and I wanted to ask DavidR to clarify something:

Is there normally supposed to be a way to disable the tips / news / have a nice day popups without having to disable the virus database update popups? I don’t see an option to disable the annoying ones, and I really like the update popups (which I don’t have, though I should have them, since I haven’t disabled them, and I want them…!) Also, if it is a bug issue, is there any info on whether avast! will be fixing it in a future update?

Thanks,
MP