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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: nktower on September 30, 2011, 04:05:49 PM

Title: "Perhaps you dion't know..." pop-up
Post by: nktower on September 30, 2011, 04:05:49 PM

I am retired, no commercial use.  I get the "Perhaps you didn't know..." pop-up maybe once a week.  There is no way to tell it that I "DO" know the license terms and am abiding by them.  I am not about to try the commercial version, even if it is a free trial.

Perhaps Avast! sees that I have more than 6 machines registered - that's because I play with virtual machines running various operating systems as part of my involvement in a user group, and chair a database special interest group.  As part of the user group support I have a Windows Server 2008 installation which acts as a domain controller, SQL Server, as well as the VMware Server host for the virtual machines.  As I just saw in someone else's post perhaps it is the presence of the domain server that is triggering the alert.

Note to Avast! - Servers don't necessarily imply commercial use.

And yes, it is the Avast! Free Antivirus 6.0.1289.

The point is - the 'nag' box doesn't provide a mechanism that allows me to confirm that I am legitimately using the free version.  How about fixing that?

Title: Re: "Perhaps you dion't know..." pop-up
Post by: CraigB on September 30, 2011, 04:24:16 PM

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=85770.msg693917#msg693917

Title: Re: "Perhaps you dion't know..." pop-up
Post by: DavidR on September 30, 2011, 05:11:02 PM

@ nktower
You shouldn't be getting it on a regular basis, but it will be periodically run over a week as has been mentioned in the link you were given.

Also see:

Quote from: MartinZ on August 22, 2011, 11:17:43 AM

Hi all,
<snip>
If you are running a home network, please just close the screen and accept our apologies. We haven't found a better way how to target the business environment more precisely.

Thank you
Martin

and

Quote from: MartinZ on August 24, 2011, 11:17:58 AM

I understand that you may feel offended by that screen. We will increase the quota to 5 PCs to lower the number of false prompting. The fact is that lot of users is not aware that Free AV shouldn't be used for business purposes, and this is one of the way how to inform them.Thank you for understanding.

Martin

Title: Re: "Perhaps you dion't know..." pop-up
Post by: nktower on September 30, 2011, 05:27:53 PM

Hi Martin - "Offended" is too strong a word.  Maybe a better word would be "Frustrated" as there was no apparent way to acknowledge the message and confirm that I am in compliance.  Meanwhile, if it pops up again, I'll just dismiss it.  Thanks for your response.