>:( >:(
shortly after upgrading to avast 6.0.1289 i got a very annoying popup ad asking me to buy avast internet security, has anyone else got this? that was the main reason i switched from avira to avast to get rid of the annoying ads. Very disappointing avast did this!!!
If your talking about the big add that pops up in the middle of the screen it’s just a one off thing that comes up when you are in the middle of your license period, easy to exit the add and you shouldn’t see it again.
Yes, I’ve got it, too.
I had to reinstall avast! because of it, because I tried IS, but I didn’t like it, I switched back, and my browsers lost internet acces because of the Web Shield… >:(
Count me as annoyed and disappointed too. It may be a one off thing, but that’s still one time too many.
I’m NOT against a “balanced” advertising. Avast is still a business I think that, in this case, Avast Software made a mistake.
When the user updates the program, several things could go wrong. The user either throws Avast out, or searches for help / solutions / workarounds.
When Avast Software decides to include, AT THE SAME TIME, some additional changes, it can only stress this “glitches” (or potential bugs) a little more.
The one-time advertising (screen notification) is not the only thing that was included at the same moment of the program update (to 6.0.1289). Avast Software decided to include the possibility to upgrade to AIS (15 days free trial), and to give also the possibility to go back to the usual Free edition. This, IMO, was NOT smart.
Updating the program is enough “stress” for the rare cases were something goes wrong. All the advertising and 15 day trial needs to be separated from the program update process. It “might” be less successful as an advertisement campaign (or not) if it is separated, but for the users, it is much more reliable, simple, and stable.
Under the current situation, users having problems “just after the program update”, need to investigate “more than usual”, to find out if the program update was the one generating the problem, or was the ad notification, or was the 15 days trial, or was the “going back to the Free edition”.
All this “extra stress” was (and is) unnecessary, and avoidable by simply separating the campaign from the program update.
Once Avast’s servers detect most (or all) users have updated the program, only then start the campaign. This gives time, for the users that indeed had problems updating the program itself, to solve any problems and to give enough feedback to Avast Team. Only then start the campaign, that might bring other users with other problems to resolve, but the trigger of the problem is much more narrow than under the current “program update + simultaneous ad + simultaneous 15 day trial + option to get back to Free edition”.
This means an additional “program upgrade” (or edition upgrade, I should say), but IMO it is less problematic than the method used while updating to Avast 6.0.1289.
As I said, unnecessary stress.
I got it twice yesterday…and mine
does not expire for several months
see screenie
What do you mean - twice? On the same computer?
@hayc59,
You are probably a little bit confused (no offense intended), as shown by your comment about “not expire for several months” while your own attached screenshot shows it is only a trial for 15 days.
Nope, you are the confused one 
By “Not expire for several months”, he refers to his current registration.
Thank you.
@ady4um…mine is April something expire date
pop-up is for the trial for 15 days
see another image
Yes
I got it also. VERY ANNOYING! Third time in the past couple months I got a popup ad from avast! This is not good.
Three times in the past couple months… For me is not invasive…
That’s you.
Yeah, that’s you.
Very annoying. Last month we discussed about the small advertising pop-ups but things are getting worst now…
Just to be clear, I think forum members in this specific topic are a little bit confused, or maybe I am.
The ad that we are talking about in this specific topic is not the same as other ads in the past.
Yes, all are ads, and I am sure you have seen ads from other security tools, non-security tools, other computer-related products, other products not related to computers, ads displayed in your computer screen, ads displayed in your TV screen, and other ads in other media.
Probably the difference is that Avast is not “nagging” the user “all the time”, nor “every update” (“as seen on TV”). So, Avast is a business, and Avast Software makes decisions about advertisements and how to try to improve its income and gains.
If this topic is going to question “every” ad of “any” type Avast has “ever” shown, then what’s the point? Yes, Avast is apparently showing more ads than in the past. Probably no user of the Free edition likes this. I don’t like it. But please try to contribute with some idea, instead of simply complaining because, say, “3 ads in a month, and this was different in the past”.
I don’t like it either, and it seems like Avast Software is going to keep doing it more and more (and, still, lets hope not).
My first post in this topic was about separating the ads, offers, campaigns and alike, from the normal or usual program update process. That’s a useful contribution (whether you agree or not). I have no control about it, and only and just complaining won’t solve anything.
Of course, this is my opinion, and evidently anyone / evreyone is free to keep posting whatever opinions or comments, as long as it “plays nice” with rules of netiquette.
@hayc59,
I don’t understand why you are mixing the validity of your specific license with the 15 day trial. If a user using the Free edition chooses to try it, after 15 days such user needs to either pay for it or go back to the Free edition. Other than that, I don’t know of “months” of validity for the trial.
I think it is rather a good opportunity for people who haven’t tried AIS, to use it and if they have any problem, they can just go back to the free version.
+1
IMHO i don’t think it’s invasive and
but I respect all the other opinions 
I also respect ady4um’s opin as well as
everyone here!! we all cool
its not annoying to me either!
What is was annoying was watching my home town football team[Reno,Nev Wolfpack]
get beat or slaughtered by the Oregon Duckies!!
no that is a pisser
That’s very strange… were you at the computer when the first one appeared (and did you close it?), or was it showing there for a while?
Did you reboot the machine between the first and second occurrence, or was it running all the time?