system
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If we don’t remember to turn down our speaker volume, then we are jolted awake by “YOUR AVAST DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED”. How do I turn off the update announcements, or at least silence their volume? If this can’t be fixed I will need to uninstall and use a different company. Thanks!
DJBone
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Hello and welcome to the Forum! 
Open avast → Settings → Appearance → Sounds → disable Automatic update
DJBone
system
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Thank you for your reply. The problem now, however, is that I’m getting pop ups again. I think it might be that I need to reset my preferences after upgrading, but when logging into my account now a settings tab is no where to be found. Can you please help me again turn off pop ups? Thank you.
Eddy
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You can enable/disable sounds and pop-ups at the place DJBone told you.
system
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Can you please help me locate the settings tab? Thank you.
DJBone
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You must change the settings in the avast! UI not in the avast! account.
DJBone
system
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I tried, and it appears that Avast does not allow you to block popups with the free version. Is this so?
Eddy
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Indeed, you get what you pay for. 