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Offline Vladimyr

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Re: Reminders are getting in the way. Will be removing avast
« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2012, 02:00:30 PM »
For the record, AIS on a customer machine up for renewal soon. Here's "the dreaded" reminder.
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Re: Reminders are getting in the way. Will be removing avast
« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2012, 03:58:21 PM »
Same on the free version 28 reminder, Red should only be used for alerts, as per the Pop-up colour scheme. It should be Blue for informative or Orange for Warning, but certainly NOT Red.
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Re: Reminders are getting in the way. Will be removing avast
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2012, 04:35:02 PM »
...Red should only be used for alerts, as per the Pop-up colour scheme. It should be Blue for informative or Orange for Warning, but certainly NOT Red.

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Re: Reminders are getting in the way. Will be removing avast
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2012, 11:09:30 PM »
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Bullfighters use a red cape to annoy a bull into a rage, so no, this is not an appropriate color to use.  Blue would be more peaceful and (feeling-wise) cooler as well. 

Could be that setting (which is not modifiable as far as I know) is setting some users off unnecessarily.  Do agree that the settings for renewal notices could be handled a little better tho, say, set to appear one or two weeks before the need to renew needs to be done.  One month (30 days) early is really too soon, and a way to take care of infrequent computer use is to post an email to the user in their email box ahead of time would help and be a gentler way to do it.

What I do  is simply renew the free subscription on the first day of the nags, and only lose thirty days of the old subscription.  In return, I get another 11 months of protection as things now stand. 

I think that is one of the unaddressed issues here, is that the subscription is supposed to be for one year, but in reality, never is.   ???
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Re: Reminders are getting in the way. Will be removing avast
« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2012, 12:53:58 AM »
Well, yes and no. With no valid subscription, you also don't get most of the protection. That includes free version as well.
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