Win a Nexus 7 Popup

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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How do I stop Avast!'s advertising pop-ups? I am tired of being offered the chance to win a Nexus 7. I am amazed that a security software manufacturer has the nerve to serve me with their advertising pop-ups.

Can anyone help me stop this annoying ritual, or do I just have to uninstall Avast! and go somewhere else?

Many thanks

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hi P-squared,

I’m assuming you have got 8.0.1483 stable avast! free installed (you didn’t say).

Open the avast! gui (program window) and click Settings in upper right corner: Settings>Popups.

There you can change the popup duration time to 1 second if need be. Unfortunately, since the free version is supported by advertising, you may still have to allow the pop-up, but at least it will now come up and disappear quickly. I know, this can be very annoying, but I would rather have the avast! protection in place in spite of this behavior.

See attached .jpeg below for more information. 20 seconds is the default setting for all pop-ups; all popups can be changed to greater or lessor times if you wish.

Purchasing a paid version will remove the ad popups, but not saying you should, btw, because you get the same virus engine for protection in free as in the paid version…

EDIT: If you can, choose “Show last popup message” and screenshot the offending popup by right-clicking the avast! icon in the system tray and attaching that .jpeg in your next reply.

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Hi mchain,

Since when did avast! have ad popups? AFAIK, there weren’t any back in 2009 when 4.8 was out.

~!Donovan

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Perhaps these innovations are a consequence of taking on board as CEO a former
head of world-wide consumer sales and e-commerce? (Just speculating …)

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@ P-squared,

I hope you’ve reconsidered changing a/v’s. If not, here is a link for complete removal of old/uninstalled a/v programs: http://singularlabs.com/uninstallers/security-software/ You will see most, if not all, major vendors are included.

Found the source of the advert here: (or rather, a blog announcing the ad campaign) https://blog.avast.com/2013/04/13/avast-and-android-police-host-international-mega-giveaway/ If you are running a desktop or laptop, this really does not apply to you.