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!

Hello and welcome to the Forum! :slight_smile:

Open avast → Settings → Appearance → Sounds → disable Automatic update

DJBone

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.

You can enable/disable sounds and pop-ups at the place DJBone told you.

Can you please help me locate the settings tab? Thank you.

You must change the settings in the avast! UI not in the avast! account.

DJBone

I tried, and it appears that Avast does not allow you to block popups with the free version. Is this so?

Indeed, you get what you pay for. :wink: