Those commentators that insist this is perfectly legitimate Avast application behavior lets just recap and make this clear.
NO stop trolling
Those that think you can disable it via the settings options
NO the options make no difference
As for this being a bug, are we to believe these rather too convenient SPAM popups just so happen to be due to a BUG? Well, what a nice bug Avast must feel this is for them, and there’s nothing we can do because its a BUG. . . really… how convenient.
Ok, lets presume it is a “BUG”. Some fool posted the crazy notion that because it is not a critical security issue, Avast should not be expected to update their software for such a “minor” irritation. For a minor irritation it appears to be rather embarrassing for Avast, dontchya think! Well think harder!
So here we have Avast, an anti virus application, supposedly there to prevent malware and virus software interfering with your work, yet Avast is SPAMMING it’s very users all by itself! And to think there are people out there that think this is excusable because its a bug! A BUG! {shudders} And in any case, where is this “bug” officially reported by Avast? Where is the bug work item history that tells us what is being done to fix it, along with a release date ?
Dear me, this is certainly a very embarrassing state of affairs for what appears to be a rather simplistic “bug”, and for such a large established big market player, tut tut ! And not have been fixed by now, are we to seriously believe for one second, that it is some sort of accident that an entire QA testing team would just so happen to miss the most blatant bug where an auto update pop up gets replaced by blatant adverts! Really ?? Right then, so with such a blatant level of incompetence across an entire testing team, what other absurd oversights are lurking beneath, can we even trust Avast at all any more, what the hell is going on ?? I’m sure Avast will move very quickly to “fix” (er hum) this supposed bug - that’s if they haven’t released a fix alreday. Otherwise quite simply this will hit the headlines hard, then its Game Over.
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Hear, Hear!
I also find it very hard to understand the people who try to excuse this spamming. It strikes me as the type of behaviour of someone who is almost religious in their support of Avast and is totally blind to it’s shortcomings.
As for
I guess you either neglected or conveniently overlooked the following post :
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=122481.msg1029343#msg1029343
Is that the post which says unchecking the Notification boxes will fix things?
@ David Wong
Have you read my Reply #8 of this topic - since these are screwed up auto update notifications, you need to uncheck the Show notification box after automatic update (avastUI > Settings > Update - scroll down to details).
Did you uncheck that ?
As I and others have pointed out, this makes no difference, you still keep getting the spam.